Pierre Audetat

VIP: Pierre Audetat - Vinz Vonlanthen: Walking Contradiction

by Glenn Astarita
March 31, 2018

As noted on Leo Records' website, the premise for this duo set is extracted from a phrase in Martin Scorsese's classic film Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro. Otherwise, the duo's partly minimalist, ethereal and spacey soundscapes paint a divergent picture on a per-track basis. So, there are good-natured, yet largely probing and fractured musical contradictions throughout the program. With guitarist Vinz Vonlanthen's succinct voicings amid keyboardist Pierre Audetat's sampling duties and abstract treatments, the program also includes unwieldy EFX, ...