Jason Calhoun & Foresteppe - A Four Part Cure

Second email-based collaboration between American sound artist Jason Calhoun and Foresteppe, the alias of Russian producer Egor Klochikhin. Their first shared work, 2020's Pieces of Death, was a hefty affair to say the least, nearly 100 minutes of weighty ambience built from sustained piano, bucolic field recordings and subtle dissonance. A Four Part Cure is, by contrast, a more economical arrangement, narrowed to a single disc and purposefully minimal in its composition. Anchored throughout by an especially lonely sounding piano, meditative 'Ambient Americana' guitar and the crunch of field recording footsteps on, what sounds like, frosted grass, the pair evoke what is a particularly brumal scene, an early morning vista caught under the blanket of winter. It's coincidental A Four Part Cure should arrive the same week as the reissue of Juho Toivonen's debut LP, since they're perfect companion pieces, intimate, private world compositions with a blissful, elemental quality.