"Patient cosmo-dronez with ear juice acoustic guitar improvisations and just fine clackery." - Thurston Moore/Byron Coley

9 MP3 Songs
ELECTRONIC: Experimental, FOLK: Political



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Layne Garrett's sounds are wide-ranging, from swallow-you-whole improvised noise freak-outs to unnervingly patient, shimmering compositions. Elements include: prepared and re-tuned guitars, found-object percussion, thumb piano, field recordings, brutish bass clarinet, shaky voice, live sampling/processing, drift, collapse, transformation.

Garrett lives in Washington DC and plays in the improv duo The Cutest Puppy in the World. He has received grants from the American Composers Forum and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He has performed regionally and nationally and has several recordings available on the DC-based Sockets label, as well as forthcoming releases on New American Folk Hero. His recordings have been praised by Wire, Terrascope, Fakejazz, Foxy Digitalis, Free103point9, and Arthur.