CD Review: von Garcia "i think i think"

von Garcia: I Think I ThinkPublished in The message For The Week
Formed in 2006 by guitarist/composer James von Buelow and composer/bassist Damon Trotta, von Garcia's i think i think is the third release under the New York City–based Sluggo's Goon Music label.
Self–proclaimed as “ambient noise rock,” this collaborative music conglomerate draws in musicians from various other bands including Riotgod's Mark Sunshine, Vehicle's Steve Decker and At War With Myself's Glenn Snelwar, as well as New York guitarist Ben Monder. Other musicians were brought into the collaboration as well.
After taking a nearly 15 year break from writing songs and performing, von Buelow picked up the guitar again in 2005 and in roughly six months, easily had enough material for an album. He then hooked up with Damon who assisted in reshaping, refining and manipulating the music into sweeping improvisations and vast musical soundscapes.
However it was in the way in which the collaborated that makes this disc so unique in not only its' sound and texture but in its' structure. During the recording, each musician was given complete freedom to “lay down” whatever they felt. Compete freedom as to “serve the music,” not the other way around .
Another unique aspect of the recording was the computerized, improvisational production in which tracks were transferred between the musicians online through ProTools, Logic and Sonar, yet still keeping all the instruments live and improvised.
The tracks are difficult to define, there are elements of ambience ("Rain Water", progressive and psychedelic rock (“Ursa Minor” and “The Fog & The Mist”), jazz fusion (“Space”) and some very experimental music (“JP Splatter”) that all wash over the listener like a colorful waterfall of musical emotions. The theme of the disc, as well as the label is “bound by lack of boundaries,” which i think i think certainly fits the bill.