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01. Mark Cunningham & Jorgen Teller - Next 1
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02. Mark Cunningham & Jorgen Teller - Next 2
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03. Mark Cunningham & Jorgen Teller - Next 3
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04. Mark Cunningham & Jorgen Teller - Next 4
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ARTIST
CUNNINGHAM & JORGEN TELLER, MARK
TITLE
Next
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
CATALOG #
FTR 789CD
FTR 789CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/11/2025
"While they have collaborated a good many times,
Next
is the first recorded evidence of Danish guitarist (or more properly Bastardist)
Jørgen Teller
playing with American ex-pat multi-instrumentalist
Mark Cunningham
. The pair both have long histories on the fringes of known sounds. I first heard Teller as a member of the dizzily freakoid
Tzarina Q Cut
and Cunningham's decades of musical adventurism with
Mars
,
Don King
,
Bestia Ferida
,
Blood Quartet
, etc. have been well documented, not least by us. This is Mark's tenth FTR release! The four pieces here are improvised instrumental duets. The material was recorded in October 2023, as part of an ongoing residency Mark has at the Fabra I Coats creation center in Barcelona. Throughout, Teller plays Le Bastard (a Hofner 137 electric guitar with two bass strings and three guitar strings). Cunningham plays mostly trumpet and delays, but also whips out his old Dan Electro for one of the tracks. Overall, the sonic results are droney, druggy, lightly-noisesome slabs of brilliant buzz. In a general way, Jørgen's amped strings set up a humbucking sound-sheet against which he and Mark can each toss spontaneous squibs of creation and destruction, When Mark is playing trumpet and pedals, the music sometimes manifests a strange sort of charm that almost has the feel of a noise rock approach to the Canterbury Sound. By which, I mean the stuff is rackety, but there are built-in glissandos that make me think of nothing less
Camel
's brilliant live work on the
Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dancehall
. Of course, these moments resolve themselves in weirder ways than any
Pete Bardens
has ever dreamed up, but it demonstrates the duo's avant-prog game is strong! The doubled guitar track (called 'Next 3' to contrast it with 'Next 1,' 'Next 2,' and 'Next 4') is a superb piece of string work with rockist overtones that put fellow in mind of some of the best moments by classic two-man string units like the
Smashchords
or early
Half Japanese
. But with a more overtly hypnagogic overlay that forces your brain's receptors to stretch themselves in new ways. It's all amazing stuff. Sounding so fully evolved you'll be tempted to swear it weren't improvised! But you'd be wrong, friend. Some people just have the gift. To paraphrase that old softy,
Lou Reed
, their week beats your year. Get up with it!" --
Byron Coley
, 2025
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