A PROPOS D'ELI KESZLER

Using drums, along with crotales, bowed metal, strings, and amplification, Eli creates a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse and piercing harmonics with intense, fast, free rhythm and sustain. He has performed, recorded or collaborated with artists such as Jandek, Phill Niblock (performed a new work of his for bowed crotales and saxophone along with Ashley Paul), Roscoe Mitchell, Loren Connors, Anthony Coleman, Howard Stelzer, Aki Onda, and Greg Kelley amongst others. He has recently released LP's with his groups Red Horse and Aster (his duo with Ashley Paul), as well as solo CD's and cassettes on his own imprint REL records. In addition he has recorded for labels such as Rare Youth (debut solo LP, Livingston), Reverb Worship and Something on The Road.

"...fantastic LP of austere solo percussion and dark matrixes of strings from this past collaborator with Jandek, with aspects of Scelsi and Dumitrescu, , Keiji Haino and Biota..... This is an amazing set that straddles 20th century avant garde thought, sound sculpture, free jazz and contemporary drone and is one of the most lovingly assembled packages to have passed through VT of late"

David Keenan (Volcanic Tongue, Wire magazine)

"It's hard to envisage that this music has been made by just one person ..especially on parts of Untitled, where the music slowly builds..the slower more textural sections are particularly striking: bowed cymbals, bells and fender rhodes give track 2 a chamber music intimacy."

Mike Barnes (Wire magazine August 2007)