Ready? Set? Go. Go. Go!
“Pysht,” by the Simon Henneman and Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy Duo, is a frantic guitar and drum dash across a million guitar notes and at least as many rasps of percussion. The track begins in the realm of late ’60s and early ’70s spiritual jazz (think a guitar version of
Pharoah Sanders or Roy Ayers Ubiquity on a strong dose of Dexamethasone) before Henneman (Diminished Men, Wayne Horvitz’s Electric Circus, Meridian Big Band) and Thomas-Kennedy (Fungal Abyss, Shitty Person, blouseusa) race down a sonic landscape that is at once cacophonous and meditative. The duo makes quite a racket before the track suddenly stops. I’d cry “too soon” or “more” if I didn’t like so much the Holly Small track that follows “Pysht” on Ball of Wax Volume 61.