Chris Corsano is a vital cog in current underground music, as a mercurial drummer from New England with a hand in many groups and a pivotal role in widening the possibilities for instrumentalists in the 2000's from many genres, from his background in community punk/hardcore and free jazz fire music. He helped to introduce jazz to free folk to pop etc.. from the ecstatic jazz of Paul Flagherty's duo to worldwide touring with Bjork, his is a singular path, successful because of an astonishing virtuosity and imagination on the drums. I can't think of another drummer I would listen to solo!
Radiant Mirror was his first collab with Mick Flower of Vibracathedral Orchestra, Leeds based improv drone merchants.
This stands as a peak of many with Corsano on drums/percussion, Flower on Japan Banjo aka Shahi baaja, according to Corsano's website a cross between a dulcimer and drone harp, or a sort of electrified bulbul tarang. None the wiser huh! well then it sounds like an electrified drone heavy sitar.
Separated into 3 movements, Earth, Wind & Fire, Radiant Mirror both rocks out into heavily psychedelic peaks, whilst allowing for exploratory passages of sound whilst never letting your interest wane, and aimed directly at your third eye. Corsano as ever when given the space, uses the kit in a way that you can easily forget is percussion, using tuning, tabla and somehow wind rushing effects, reconfiguring time with rhythm and poly rhythm, casting time into detonations, burning voids and ultrasonic vibrations of Earth.
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