Andrew Bernstein An Exploded View Of Time CD

Baltimore-based multi-instrumentalist composer Andrew Bernstein returns to Hausu Mountain for the release of his first full-length LP, An Exploded View of Time. As a member of the ecstatic minimalist quartet Horse Lords, Bernstein’s saxophone leads weave together with traditional rock instrumentation into spiraling melodic torrents, while his forays into auxiliary percussion animate the band’s grooves into new permutations of polyrhythmic complexity.

Bernstein’s solo LP follows his Cult Appeal tape (HAUSMO39) from 2015, building on the style of extended saxophone performance that he has previously presented in programs as a complement to his algorithmic work and sound art. An Exploded View of Time sidesteps the algorithmic component of Bernstein’s practice, focusing entirely on sessions for alto saxophone that bend time and the physical limits of human performance to his iron will.

Recorded over the course of one day as a series of live takes and presented with minimal post-production, the album lays out Andrew Bernstein’s compositions as improbable schematics traced in the moment by one body and mind in a state of total unity.