JEFFREY MOSIER feat. Lexi Pulido: Glitter Pidgin Collage

If Marcelo Radulovich is simply too mainstream for your musical tastes, if former UCSD professor Jason Robinson’s avant-garde jazz seems too safe, if your quest for the out there and new is insatiable, then Jeffrey Mosier’s new Glitter Pidgin Collage is likely to at least spark your interest. Mosier himself describes his music as experimental, and that’s as good a genre as any to place it in.

Mosier and frequent collaborator Lexi Pulido find and repurpose sounds in a variety of places, not all created by devices intended to produce musical notes. But this isn’t random noise—there is intent and structure in every track. The opening song, for instance, “Composition for Drumset,” is played on a trap set—but ALL of the trap set. Rims and stands, from the sound of it. And then the recording is run through some electronics to add additional texture and effects. And if it sounds free-form, there is rhythm here, a heartbeat to it holding it all together.

“Desire Systems” and “Lambda (High Failure Rate)” reside in a further orbit—a chanted vocal mixed in with sampled acoustic piano, synthesizers, and other sound snippets into a swirling, manically busy stew. Think of the TV series “Chuck” when the lead character has the CIA’s Intersection database implanted into his brain via video.

On “Song for a Goat,” Mosier and Pulido using sampling to create a syncopated pastiche of various sounds in a nearly staccato effect.

And “Symphony” lays trilling vocal effects and singing over a background of orchestral strings (or at least a synthesized approximation) and the combination of soaring melodic themes and trippy vocals calls to mind Kate Bush’s early work.

“Skeleton Seas” uses brass and percussion mashed together in a way that almost sounds like a pre-performance orchestra pit warmup session – if the orchestra pit had electronics in it.

Other tracks escape your loyal correspondent’s descriptive skills, but all exhibit an imagination and curiosity that makes even the most discordant passages at least interesting.