The Subtle Body Wears a ShadowDiamond Terrifier

Sam Hilmer—the multi-talented composer behind Diamond Terrifier and New York abstractionist mainstays Zs—doesn't play his main instrument quite as much as he violates it. Live, he shoves a microphone down into the bell of his tenor sax in order to run his squelches and bleats through delays and reverbs and echoes and loops. This, his new 33-minute composition in four parts, for Chris Taylor's Terrible Records, pairs his sometimes velvety, sometimes percussive sax with a s...

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