Stinning / Long / Heinemann - Lines Of Flight [Aut Records 145]

Put out on the circuit via the ever active Italian Aut Records label on February 18th, 2k26 as a 43 minutes spanning five track vinyl album is "Lines OF Flight", the first ever collaborational longplayer conceived Swiss reed-player Sebastian Strinning, double bass player Jakob Heinemann and South Side Chicago-based electronic musician Norman Long. Influenced by Acoustic Ecology, a field especially Heinemann and Long have been actively engaged in for an extended period of time, the trio embarks on their musical journey with "Blattnarbe", a rather nervous, yet surprisingly detailed take on stripped down and minimalist Avantgarde Jazz with a playful and explorative, yet oftentimes also screeching and dissonant note, subsequently followed by the spiralling, free floating yet almost classic reed lines of "Locus" which are backed by what seem to be slightly processed elements of Field Recordings, traces of quasi-rhythms and a dense layer of subdued sonic events of unclear origin later leading into a certainly more broken, fractured, cut up and digitally mangled approach which might be sitting well with fans and followers of Electroacustic Composition before coming full circle for an, again, FreeJazz-informed closing rounding off a total playtime of 14 minutes on the records A-side for this piece alone. With "Demarcation" on the flip the attentive listener is drawn into a world of droning low frequency rumbles, dubbed out echoes and certainly muffled bubbling soundscapes mixed with futuristic sci-fi doom vibes and a claustrophic urgency evoking memories of electroacoustic experiments on the rather influential early 90s compilation "Abschied Aus Berne" which featured a selection of pieces from the experimental electronic scene of Hamburg / Germany at the time before finally drifting into a realm of nervous and off-kilter Avantgarde Jazz once again whereas "Fluchtpunkt" offers a brittle and oscillating perspective and nocturnal atmospheric movements with a surprisingly melancholic twist and the concluding "Retrace" weighs in a scraping, most likely fully digitally processed take on highly experimental electronic music for the most part closer to the works of artists like Tine Mariane Krogh Madsen than to most musics previously released on the Aut Records label before and, not only for being something different, be might our personal favorite on this well interesting longplay piece.