In which we talk to our old friend - Portland experimental stringed instrument player and vocalist Caspar Sonnet.

Caspar and I both participated in the experimental sound and word collective Rob Walmart (https://robwalmart.bandcamp.com/), which released several albums of material culled from countless hours of improvised music and poetry - created by a rotating group of Portland freaks - broadcast live in the late 2000s on a now defunct internet radio station called Radi023.

Caspar has gone on to create one of the most beguiling and intriguing bodies of work as an experimental and improvised musician, developing "outside techniques" for modified dobro and other acoustic stringed instruments, utilizing a myriad of tools - slide, mallet, rubber ball, sticks, ebows, fingers, hands, feet and his voice - to create a hitherto unknown palette of sound.

I particularly love his work with Japanese koto player Kozue Matsumoto wherein the duo stretch the boundaries of their instruments in poetic improvisations that create fascinating cross-streams of the cultural, anthropological histories of their respective instruments.

https://youtu.be/Ax9AIY66UyM

https://casparsonnet.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/casparsonnet/

Also included - a deep groove psychedelic funk fuzz solo jam I made high on coffee.

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