Sei Miguel & Pedro Gomes - Turbina Anthem

 Following hot on the heels of that Forced Collapse album we touted a while back, here’s another trumpet and guitar duo with plenty to recommend itself. Though decidedly more jazz than the aforementioned tag-team of Liz Allbee and Christopher Riggs, this partnership’s still not afraid to yank hard on the roots of tradition in the hope of kicking up some fresh dirt. Miguel’s pocket-trumpeting lips gasp sharp metallic air on the jagged and, sometimes, jellied vertebrae of the hotwire static tumbling from Gomes’ guitar, the pair engineering combustible bursts of spewed tumult, sowing the seeds of their own calamitous end. More sedentary are The Pale Star pieces punctuating Turbina Anthem: five welcome excursions marrying post-Takoma folk tactics (with Gomes trading electric for acoustic) to soothing breathy murmur and boulevard brass. The structural bi-polarity of this collection makes the going interesting, while revealing the scope of limited means in the hands of more questing minds.