(Vital Weekly) Public Eyesore Records and its cassette offshoot Eh? Records present a series of releases on the fringes of electro-acoustic improvisation and modern music, as they, perhaps, always do. The first is by Stephen Flinn (percussion and gons) and Bryan Eubanks (saxophone, electronics). It’s been a while since I last heard something from either. Their CD contains a 31-minute recording from a concert they did at the Petersburg Art Space in Berlin in 2023 and is described by the label as “spontaneous improvisation”. Both musicians have a background in this kind of music, which works well. I have no idea what this performance space looks like and if the reverb I hear is from the space or artificially created, but it gives the music a sharp edge. There is great tension between both players and their respective approaches to their instruments. There is a lot of scraping with a bow over metallic percussion pieces, to which Eubanks responds with similar sharpish saxophone playing. Sometimes the music is very close by, sometimes very distant. This is created by moving the recorder through this space, or the players move around or using various techniques—that contradiction of far away and close by fuels the tension even further. The tension between the players is from the way they respond to each other or do not respond, of course, and their interaction with the performance space. The result is some intense music, captivating for the full 31 minutes. - Frans de Waard