This is Kramer’s 1st solo album in 5 years. His last solo LPs ‘And The Wind Blew It All Away’ “Music For Films Edited By Moths”, and “Music For Pianos & Sunflowers”, were part of his 2020 AIR (Artist In Residence) box set for Joyful Noise Recordings. “And The Wind Blew It All Away” was a gentle and magical mystery tour of simmering acoustic strings, organs, pianos and mellotrons, tape loops, found sounds and a whisper of percussion, laced through Kramer's distinctively idiosyncratic singing voice and lyrics.
This new LP has Kramer shifting away from words/text and fully into the minimalist instrumental drone-poems that first gripped him during his early years of composing and performing in NYC’s experimental late 70s ‘downtown’ scene. On this new LP Kramer further explores the creative environments that full-circle back into the forest of ideas and organic influences that have been silently percolating for decades, from a place where the Time is always Now. Fans of Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Gavin Bryars will be intrigued by Kramer’s latest sonic explorations.
1. Whispers for the Blessed
2. Whispers for the Damned
3. Whispers for the Living
4. Whispers for the Dead