After experiencing the cosmic guitar wizardry of Jacob Brockway in person at our porch party gig earlier this fall, I have been eagerly awaiting for more of his music to reach Bandcamp. The recently released Tibet Street Sessions was certainly worth the wait.

This release finds the Buffalo-based artist playing reverberating astral guitar lines alongside the crashing beats of drummer Bobby Mathieson, of Toronto. Between the two of them at Toronto’s Tibet Street Studios, they built icy landscapes of cosmic sound that are simultaneously both stoic and also bombastic. There’s almost a mystical, hypnotic feel to the majority of this EP, especially on the meditative piece, “Drain Culture.” Yet there are some moments on this release, like on “True Light,” that take this mystical vibe and rev it up into blissful crescendos of crashing symbols and transcendent waves of echoing, sliding steel.

Meanwhile at other times, you’re taken down meandering mysterious halls of foreboding reverberation and cataclysmic percussion, like in the opening track, “Kraut Rock Gone Horribly Wrong,” which feels like Gunn – Truscinski recording a cover of Floyd’s soundtrack to The Committee, while holed up in a cave somewhere.

Mute Duo, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt and Tarotplane fans will all immediately understand how special this release is. Check it out for yourself.

-KH