TL023. TL024. OVERLAY - trace / venn

The intersection of line, texture, and detail. 'trace' and 'venn' is the collaborative exploration of four prominent West Australian improvising artists working under the banner OVERLAY. The group use the trio format to explore the overlapping and subtle language shared by their individual creative practices. With this focus on subsets of the ensemble, the attention of each performer is drawn to the detail in their collaborators' respective practices. Through extended application of this process a complex musical connection has evolved, only understood in full when considering 'trace' and 'venn' as a whole.

The debut recorded documents from OVERLAY solidify the first iteration of this artistic concept. 'trace' deals with minute details set against a landscape of expansive scope—perception of scale is altered as the music unfolds. On 'venn', short sharp gestures spin musical figures, quickly reverting to abstraction. Nuanced development of timbre alludes to song structure in collage-like, dislocated ways.

OVERLAY and Tone List recognises the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of this country; we recognise the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the traditional custodians of the land where we live (Perth, Western Australia).

releases October 29, 2019.

Eduardo Cossio (electric guitar)
Lenny Jacobs (drums)
Djuna Lee (double bass)
Dan O'Connor (trumpet)

Recorded at Midland Junction Auditorium by OVERLAY, April 2019.
Mixed and mastered by Dan O'Connor @ENCODERSound.