Walter Horn

Walter Horn/Gary Kendig/Hugh Dickey: Screwdriver!

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1999

“1. You are feeling so good. 2. Your entire body feels relaxed and wonderful." With these dictations begins Screwdriver!, a journey to the frontiers of improvisational music led by Walter Horn (keyboards and little instruments), Gary Kendig (drums, trumpet, little instruments), Hugh Dickey (guitar, clarinet, vocals, little instruments), plus Eric Hipp on tenor sax for one track, “Hurricane Elroy."

Noise effects abound, flowing from foreground to background. Grooves come and go, floating under and above the vertiginously shifting instrumentation. “Chainsaw ...