Dialect
Fourth solo outing from Liverpool art-scene polymath.
AN INTEGRAL feature of Merseyside’s music community for over a decade, Andrew PM Hunt remains undefinable, fronting art-pop group Outfit, guesting in numerous experimental combos and devising solo projects. Following last year’s superb Land Trance collaboration with Ex-Easter Island Head’s Benjamin D Duvall, comes his fourth solo release as Dialect. If there is no uniform sound across Dialect’s quartet of albums, there does appear to be a defining aesthetic. These are records that might have issued from New York’s Kitchen Arts Centre in the mid-’70s, informed by the experimental sonic landscapes of Rhys Chatham, Arthur Russell and Laurie Anderson. They’re also recordings concerned with landscape, and Under~Between moves with a whisper from avant-grade chamber works to beguiling voice exercises and delicate percussion pieces, as if Hunt were creating ambient chamber scores for utopian landscapes, where birds chatter like computers, and passing cars sound like small sad jazz trios.