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Justin Wright
Pattern Seeker EP
Second Best - 2017
Michael Panontin
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The ever-present Mile End string king.
Or at least that's how arts journal Cult Montreal described the prolific cellist, Justin Wright. Wright's resume is certainly impressive, boasting stints with Raveen and Common Holly, as well as performances with the likes of Brendan Canning and Lydia Ainsworth among many others. Things actually go as far back as 2007 with his Sweet Mother Logic, a genre-defying indie project that melded cellos, organ and vintage synths into a trio of records that are well worth tracking down.
Pattern Seeker is his first solo effort and was recorded by Wright himself at the Banff Centre for the Arts and at McGill University in Montreal. The four short pieces here - nothing is longer than six minutes - combine the familiar phrasings of contemporary classical music with the nervous flittering of 1980s Phillip Glass. Hence, one supposes, the title to the opening 'Glass Alphabet', a dreamy wisp of music that wouldn't seem so out of place on Glass' Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack. Much more interesting, though, is the more ethereal 'Tines', where Wright weaves a mesmerizing plait of organ-sounding synthesizers into an almost singularly perfect piece of modern music.
Very nice indeed.
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Justin Wright
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