GREGG BELISLE-CHI - KOI - performing the music of Tim Berne

"On KOI: Performing the Music of Tim Berne, Gregg Belisle-Chi pulls off the rare feat of translating Tim Berne’s knotty, angular compositional language into something intimate, lucid, and wholly idiomatic for solo acoustic guitar. Working through ten Berne pieces with no accompaniment and no excess ornament, Belisle-Chi strips the music to its skeletal logic—its jagged counterpoint, hidden lyricism, and uneasy momentum—while revealing just how much harmonic depth and structural elegance has always been embedded in Berne’s writing."