One listen.

This song gave time for thought and I think that was good for what I was listening. I think that the writing may have been better were I to completely switch off, but I also think thinking wasn’t bad for what I was hearing as I didn’t feel I had to try and keep up.

Bruford Levin Upper Extremities’ “Cracking the Midnight Glass” is from Bruford Levin Upper Extremities.

I hope you enjoy.

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A hum and a shimmer, and it holds and fades. The dripping of percussion fills moments between an empty space, echoing, becoming busier, but not by much. It’s slow, echoing, seemingly reflecting itself. The hum and shimmer return and change this from something dark and tense to something perhaps more work-like; that is, of the process of working.

The hum and shimmer disappear and not long after they are replaced by guitar, bright and muffled, playing something joyous, almost. Something definitive, striking, full of slow movement, and a shimmering of insects come in and cover and fade a little and take the sounds with them as they fade away and the song ends.