“When Will and I work together, it feels like there is a third person playing with us,” composer, flutist, and saxophonist John Savage said about his duo with percussionist and producer Will Northlich-Redmond, and when you hear their music, you’ll know what he means. This album, with its layered approach to building on the foundation of simple, tuneful melodies with drums, guitar loops, electronics and spoken word, sounds like the work of far more than just two people. And with the addition of non-western woodwinds and percussion instruments played by both members, it sounds like an army of people who come from all over the world.
The title of the album was inspired by the special symbiosis that exists between these two birds that eat different foods but hunt in the same marshy habitat. The spoonbills frenetic foraging style stirs up not only the crustaceans and insects it prefers, but also the small fish that the heron stabs with its sharp...