- Summary: The Norwegian saxophonist worked with producer André Bratten on the five-track release.
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- Record Label: Smalltown Supersound
- Genre(s): Electronic, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Experimental Ambient, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Minimalism
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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Oct 26, 2021If not for the wisdom, lend an ear to these marginal spaces for the sounds within are their own reward.
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UncutOct 26, 2021Giske spins the likes of “Cruising” and “Void” into bold extended pieces that are gripping in their poignancy and intensity. [Dec 2021, p.27]
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Oct 26, 2021Throughout Cracks, Giske appears to be striving for an alien, private vocabulary with an instrument saddled with 175 years of tradition and tropes. Against great odds, he succeeds.
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Oct 26, 2021Cracks is an illuminating exploration of cyclical energy, both inside and outside the body.
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Oct 26, 2021The LP’s stunning centrepiece is the 10-minute Cruising, where Giske plays fast, florid, extended arpeggios, sometimes adding or subtracting notes, like Philip Glass’s additive process, while his fingers tap out a machine-like rhythm. All the time, Bratten is manipulating sympathetic drones and harmonics, creating a spectral shroud around Giske’s ecstatic burbles.