Mark Fell / Sandro Mussida – Object Relations #1 – 7 Vinyl

Object Relations is Mark Fell’s 7″ label focusing on collaborations between diverse artistic practices. Recorded in Milan, 2014, the label’s inaugural edition features a unique combination of Fell’s crafty drum programming with the adroit, keening cello improvisation of trained cellist and composer Sandro Mussida. Fell’s elliptical microtemporal LinnDrum arrangements are matched and colored with compelling streaks and wooden strikes from Mussida in a tussle of crooked time signatures and rhythmelodic cadence. A departure from Fell’s electronic asceticism, perhaps best compared with the early ’80s experiments of Peter Zummo and Arthur Russell, albeit effectively shorn of that duo’s more melodic affectations