'Homes' by Caldwell/Tester

Like an easy aural breeze blowing softly from the speakers, Caldwell/Tester return with 'Homes', the Indianapolis duo's proper full-length follow up to 2020's 'Little Flower'.

For this outing, Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester have conjured up a patient and fanciful world that seamlessly blends the organic with the electronic. Brief visions of piano, flute, clarinet and trumpet provide sparse passages amongst often barely-there sequences, which whimsically sputter melodies amongst serene synthesized pastures. Thoughtful, intuitive sound gestures and auditory broadcasts from the musical subconsciousness encompass a warm embrace of the utopian elements of the natural world. In other moments, the vibe becomes more wistful, stark, and sometimes ominous, suggesting a direct gaze at the world outside from these oblique, and sometimes imagined, inner sonic plains.

'Homes' is the 50th release (and first LP) on the duo's label Medium Sound, a fitting connection of the circle for the imprint that initially began as an outlet for the pair's prolific output.

Midwestern sound documentarians currently operating a cassette label digitally and physically out of Indianapolis, Ind. by Mark Tester and Landon Caldwell