Scott Sinclair & Clinton Green – With Doors Open (Half Theory)

An improvised guitar collaboration between Brisbane based Scott Sinclair and Melbourne’ Clinton Green (Undecisive God), the recordings on this CDR were crafted over a three-year period and utilise a number of interesting approaches. These range from the abrasive though strangely rhythmic and quite powerful Tamas, which at 1.30 sounds like the arrival of impending doom, to the more textural splinters, scuffing and jagged stabs of sound of Medi Hiss, that no longer seem remotely related to guitar, melding the difficult textures with a slight ambient atmosphere. These pieces have been compiled and remixed from hours of recordings and nowhere is this more evident than the title track, which clocks in at eight minutes, beginning subtly before building with a searing power. Often working together they sound like a single sound source, a searing ambient drone, where they dip and surge ahead as one, their sounds interweaving, before breaking away to give detail to the work. One moment they’d happily sit alongside Caspar Brotzman, the next Derek Bailey and later Thurston Moore or even the drones of If Thousands, such is diversity of terrain covered.