Bitterviper – Bitterviper

Bitterviper is the brand-new quartet of Nikos Veliotis (cello), Taku Unami (synthesizer), Sarah Hennies (percussion), and David Grubbs (guitar, piano), four individuals who separately are responsible for some of the most striking and wildly idiosyncratic music of the past couple of decades.

Athens-based Nikos Veliotis set Bitterviper into motion with four overdubbed pieces of dense psychoacoustic marvels on the cello; Grubbs responded with characteristically subtle tracery on piano, guitar, and lap steel; Unami weighed in electronically from Tokyo to mysteriously thicken both the plot and the low end; and Hennies applied her compositional gifts to structure the whole thing with an Occams Razor approach to percussion.

But once you drop the needle on Bitterviper, its origin story becomes ancient history; youre suddenly in the presence of an ensemble that sounds like no other and for whom there are no false steps. Its all fair game when this is how you choose to play; Bitterviper is a salvo of confidence and conviction, and this is only the beginning.

Black vinyl.

Tracklist:
01. BIRD OF PREY BEATEN BACK (10:49)
02. PILLOWS PLUMPED FOR THE GUESTS (8:58)
03. IN VIVO RECEPTOR (9:57)
04. GRAVITY DOES ITS WORST (11:50)