View basket “Stars 25th Anniversary Edition” has been added to your basket. STIR Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn SKU: DC756 Barcode: 0781484075615 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City Released Date: 11th October 2019 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Fresh off his acclaimed solo album ‘Fountain Fire’, Bill MacKay is back to harmonic atom-splitting with all six of his guitar strings in this new collaboration with cellist Katinka Kleijn, ‘STIR’. Bill is an avid collaborator (see ‘SpiderBeetleBee’, with Ryley Walker) and over the past seven years he and Katinka have used live performance to build their chemistry into a surprising, organic density, with sharply-etched colours drawn from avant-rock, folk, jazz classical and experimental music. It is at once an unlikely and perfect pairing as both musicians are known not only for their chops but for their creativity, curiosity and range. Together they form a fluid, intuitive, dialogical and improvisational pair. ‘STIR’ is centred on a series of MacKay’s compositions, partially inspired by Hermann Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf. You can try following along with the book but don’t expect any ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’/‘Wizard Of Oz’-type moments. This is a concept unhindered by the conceptual but it has a beautiful through-line to its organization. The repetition and expansion of themes borrows from the chamber music world, while the distortions, free play and edge of much of the work clearly draws from the duo’s friends in noise and the avantgarde. Were Jim Hendrix, Henry Flynt, John Cage, PJ Harvey, Duke Ellington, Eric Satie or Body/Head to appear in your mind as this disc was spun in your house – no one would less than inspired. Bill MacKay is a guitarist-composer-songwriter who has vitalized the experimental rock, avant and folk scenes for over a decade. He grew up in Pittsburgh and has made Chicago home since 1998. Katinka Kleijn is cellist and veteran of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and International Contemporary Ensemble among many other groups. She hails from The Netherland and has lived in Chicago since 1995. Both musicians have appeared as guests on numerous records and tour domestically and internationally, when they are not playing concerts in Chicago. ‘STIR’ is their first full-length record together. All music is arranged by MacKay and Kleijn. 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