Bandcamp pick of the week: Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides - Aulos Second Reed

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides are Pascal Nichols and Kelly Jayne Jones, an improvisational duo of flute, tapes, electronics, percussion and others devices.

''Aulo’s Second Reed is an album that truly characterises the duo’s name, taken from an abstract Tai Chi manoeuvre. Like their name sake, this recording, originally issued by Bennifer Editions, is focused, fluid and graceful in its intent. Kelly and Pascal music is sometimes described as ritualistic, a statement I can agree because it ascribes a functionality. Aulo’s Second Reed is highly conducive to meditative states and internal examination. The core instrumentation of flute and percussion is purposely privileged on these two lengthy sound poems, fluttering between ancestral invocations and great yawns of drama riddled silence. The interplay between Nichols and Jones ebbs and flows like a mythic narrative, toms and gongs thundering amid soaring flute lines.'' David McLean