Settings: Music For Dance, Film, Fashion and Industry

by Robert Poss

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david lee myers Great and varied tracks, love it. Thanks Robert! Favorite track: The Structure (for Alexandra Beller/Dances).

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1.	Other Stories Interlude (for Alexandra Beller/Dances) 02:24	buy track
2.	The Structure (for Alexandra Beller/Dances) 04:06	buy track
3.	Feed Forward (for Alexandra Beller-Dances).aif 05:44	buy track
4.	With Music No. 2 (Excerpt) (for Sally Gross) 05:34	buy track
5.	Border Crossing March (for Gerald Casel Dance) 08:03	buy track
6.	Inverness 09:16	buy track
7.	Concordance (for Gerald Casel Dance) 03:09	buy track
8.	The Pleasure Of Stillness (Live Excerpt) (for Sally Gross) 03:57	buy track
9.	Stare Decisis 08:28	buy track
10.	Border Piano Walk (for Gerald Casel Dance) 03:16	buy track
11.	Then I Realized 02:45	buy track
12.	Trio (Excerpt) 03:39	buy track
13.	Touriquet Revisited 09:57	buy track
14.	Robert Palmer Tribute Coda (Live Excerpt) 01:26	buy track

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From The Wire: Robert Poss rings bells just like he's playing guitar. The chimes ring out during the opening piece on Settings, but you only have to wait for the second track for those bells to run into thrumming strings. His abiding love for electric guitar is no casual dalliance or detached Platonic infatuation; it's an erotic commitment, an obsessive plunge into the instrument's metallic churn and enveloping drone. That's been the way at least since Poss formed Band Of Susans with Susan Stenger in 1986, when he was also performing with Rhys Chatham.

That phase reverberates through the motoric churn of "With Music No. 2", a composition commissioned by choreographer Sally Gross. Pieces written for the dance companies of Alexandra Beller and Gerald Casel also feature here along with music for specific occasions, as the subtitle indicates. His use of percussion, piano and electronics, and the broadly Ambient feel of tracks such as "Inverness" or "Then I Realized," might suggest that Poss has changed as he has developed, but the six-stringed and amplified core of his musical imagination remains the same whatever the actual sound source. He's certainly extending into other areas here - the hobbling honky-tonk of "Border Piano Walk," the synthetic orchestral pomp of "Tourniquet Revisited" - but the concluding live solo, "Robert Palmer Tribute Coda," leaves no doubt at all that at heart Poss is still a guy in love with a guitar. Go Robert Go.

-Julian Cowley

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released August 23, 2022

Thanks/Acknowledgement: Alexandra Beller, Gerald Casel, Sally Gross, Augusta Palmer, Phill Niblock, Martijn Hart, Nicolas Collins, Marget Wibmer, Cat Tyc, Susan Stenger, ZT Amplifiers, Valvetech, Frenzel, G&L Guitars

Music composed, performed and recorded by Robert Poss. Recorded and Mixed at Trace Elements Records, New York City, except (7) recorded at Joyce Soho and (13) recorded at Le Poisson Rouge.

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Robert Poss New York, New York

Composer and guitarist Robert Poss was a founding member of Band Of Susans,  which Rolling Stone Magazine described as "adamantly arty, brainy,  visceral and bracing." Tape Op  Magazine described him as a “guitar genius, drone meister …the master  of treated and manipulated guitars.” ... more

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