If there are musicians who are equally adept in experimenting in solitude, with consistently impressive results, and in bouncing their ideas off like-minded performers, Julie Slick and Tim Motzer belong to this elite category of creators. Both of them have solo records and both of them love teamwork too, being part of various bands, including, respectively, THE CRIMSON PROJEkCT and PAKT; more so, these artists collaborated previously – but never as a self-sufficient two-piece unit, which was exactly what they went for recently.
The result of Motzer and Slick’s sessions is an album titled “Frozen Holy Water” – that they describe as “somber vignettes, crystalline soliloquies, and glacial tone poems of frozen sound under blankets of snow” – and available currently only in digital form Bandcamp. How did it come to exist?
“Julie and I have been friends for a long time,” explains Tim, “we played together in a lot of different situations over the years, and she’s also a part of SECRET VOICES’ ‘Caravan’ album that came out recently on 1k, playing bass on that. And now we got together last January just to improvise, as live duo, in my studio, Julie on bass and pedals and me on guitars and electronics. We recorded close to two hours of material: very ambient, textural, cyclic, and cinematic. The ideas happen as you’re playing – they come through – and there was a lot of magic and beautiful moments on these recordings. So I went through the material, edited it and produced ten songs that I felt were really striking and emotional.”
& TIM MOTZER –
Frozen Holy Water
1. Permafrost
2. Frozen Holy Water
3. Slow Drifts
4. Refuge
5. Crystalline
6. Snow Moon (Blues)
7. Crystal Forest
8. Diamond Dust
9. Snaw-ghast
10. Glacial
