Ogden Garden by Kryssi and Wednesday

Dakinsina
DAK021
Limited to 100 LPs

Kryssi Battalene and Wednesday Knudsen have been playing together for years, and now they’ve grabbed some moments and crafted an elegant story in the form of this LP. And it is special, I tell you no lie. Each artist has a formidable musical identity, but rather than a mere mashing together of two individual styles, we encounter here a duo conjuring a fully-formed third mind. Each track is a blissfully slow-moving missive. From the feathery nutmeg dub sound of the title track to the avian accents provided by the environment on “Calm Club Charter” and “The Sound of Things Growing,” from the rolling tectonic shifts of “Mirror Heart” to the shimmering metallic sheets of “Air Portal,” we get to witness music dreaming itself into being. This record is an open field for associations, projections, recollections, wonderings of what might have been. Even if you recognize a flute, a guitar, a rhythm box, a bass – the instruments are dissolving. Beyond here lies nothing. Or everything. Or maybe there’s a kind of magic that transcends absolutes. I know which door I’m gonna knock on…
Matt Krefting
Holyoke, Mass
2024