Sam Gendel & Marcella Cytrynowicz Audiobook

AUDIOBOOK, the new project from prolificmulti-instrumentalist Sam Gendel and visual artist/filmmakerMarcella Cytrynowicz, is comprised of 13alphabetically-named tracks and corresponding illustrationsthat feel like dispatches from outer space, or unearthedancient runes. At points melodic and cartoonish and atothers glitching and somewhat unnerving, it's a visual workand instrumental album rooted in a strange in-between, in ashadowy and vivid chasm between terrestrial andotherworldly. A puzzle that doesn't ask to be completed, butinvites you to play.Cytrynowicz and Gendel have been consistent collaboratorssince 2020, with Cytrynowicz providing photography as wellas music videos and visuals, including for Gendel's DRMand their AE-30 documentary, and with Gendel contributingsnippet scores to to her own short-form video work.AUDIOBOOK is the meeting of something distinctly analogweaving into a soundscape that could be at home in a 90ssci-fi soundtrack, the parallel play of a visual artist andprolific musician, abstract art and sound reaching out totouch. "It's the sound of us just individually trustingourselves, and then aligning the two together and lettingthem meet, and also trusting in that," Gendel says. "I don'tthink about it that directly, though - this isn't art inspired byart. I would say this is just a piece showing two peopletrusting in their subconscious and then trusting in thatmeeting point, wherever that is. And shepherding it along."