Music for One - The Red Thumb (Perennial Sounds) Music For One’s (aka Sherry Ostapovitch) previous recordings have featured electric (and often heavily manipulated) guitar and lo-fi effects, and feature compositions that fit somewhere between noise and white noise. On The Red Thumb, Ostapovitch uses an unadulterated metal-bodied, acoustic resonator guitar as her only tool, and the obsessive muse and relationship between the musician and instrument is both beguiling and eccentric. Recorded to tape, and forgoing any overdubs, allows the spaces to bask in a certain muted cacophony all of their own. Overall it seems that what has been offered appears to be dusted off cylindrical wax relics (shelved way back, when this music was way too ahead of it’s time). It’s stark hum and atmospheres release sublime drones - “Circadian Rhythms” and “The Wind From The Irish Sea” - and abstract melancholy, through intricate improvisation and unconventional and free structures - creating sounds that fog and drift upwards like smoke. Ostapovitch does not limit herself to the use of selected notes or chords, sometimes allowing the resonator to find it’s own way, or exploring the sound beyond its usual application by omitting the strings altogether. The closing cover of Skip James’ “Devil's Got My Woman” could be seen as having stamped influence on the set without having over informed it - a far distant cousin (twice removed). www.musicforone.com Willsk Next