Mark Trecka | Implication

Implication is Mark Trecka’s third full-length solo recording. It is his first entirely instrumental full-length release.

With only one exception, all sounds on Implication were sourced from a single prepared piano improvisation which Trecka recorded during the same session that resulted in his recent LP Acknowledgment. He then took these relatively few sounds and manipulated them into cassette loops before further shaping them into the four narrative compositions that make up Implication.

Given the limit and uniformity of the source material, the breadth of sonic textures, tones, and moods that comprise the record is remarkable. Lyrical passages interweave with percussive hammering and harmonic drones, brief moments extended and bent by distressed magnetic tape.

And the one exception to the uniformity of the source material is significant. Just over the record’s halfway mark, “Radiance” emerges –– an expansive and shimmering collaboration between Trecka and longtime friend Walt McClements, whose processed accordion both pushes and pulls Trecka’s pulsing loops. While McClements’ work has been compared to that of Kali Malone and Tim Hecker, in this context one might also think of a rough around the edges outtake from... more

releases October 29, 2021

Most sounds by Mark Trecka including piano and cassette loops and their editing and shaping. "Radiance" features Walt McClements on processed accordion, shaping and so forth. Treatments throughout by Evan Hydzik. Mastered by Mkl Anderson. Original piano recordings engineered by Rob Kissner. Design by Will Brady.