Local Label Spotlight: Flower-Corsano Duo on VHF

Sometime last year, I gave props to new releases by a bunch of D.C.-area record labels, one of which was Æthenor’s Betimes Black Cloudmasses on VHF Records in Fairfax. VHF have just released something else that caught my ear – and no, not the new Æthenor, although that one is excellent as well.

No, this time it’s a product of improvisers Chris Corsano and Mick Flower. Corsano is a drummer very active in the world of free improvisation, has worked most extensively with saxophonist Paul Flaherty, but has also toured with the likes of Björk; Flower is mostly known for his playing in the UK drone group Vibracathedral Orchestra, and plays a shahi baaja, a kind of Indian electric dulcimer. This year’s The Four Aims on VHF, their second recording together as a duo, is 50 minutes of tremendous free improvisation.

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