small cover image Justin Walter - Lullabies and Nightmares
Format: LP Label: Kranky Notify Me ( ? ) Price: $13.50  "'Though
the album title Lullabies and Nightmares suggests music
thematically rooted in sleep, the debut full-length from
Brooklyn-based/Michigan-bred trumpet player and composer Justin
Walter owes more to a sense of emerging. After years of touring,
random gigs and session work as a gifted player, Walter emerged
with a sound that rendered all of that almost inconsequential.
Spending a couple years intensively exploring the EVI, or
Electronic Valve Instrument, a 1980's synthesizer/horn hybrid,
he eventually worked out webs of bubbling loops made on the
instrument, processed trumpet and fragmented electronics.
Following a few low-key cassette releases and solo loft
performances, Walter took the project into the studio, working
with Erik Hall and drummer Quinn Kirchner to create a more
controlled statement. Building on the loops and textures of the
EVI, the album incorporates phasing patterns, the