Susan Alcorn: Mandala
Playing the pedal-steel guitar, an instrument usually associated with country & western music (but coveted by anyone with ears and a sex drive), Texan Susan Alcorn creates a music that is simultaneously meditative and energizing. Alcorn's compositions make use of improvisation while her pedal-steel guitar, with its natural vocabulary of slides, whoops, glisses, and clouds of slowly-shifting sustains and clusters, completely lends itself to extended techniques. This session includes Susan Alcorn's Mantra Parts 1-6.
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