Presented in partnership with WDCB
The band and album take their name from the ancient art of writing or drawing with heat on wood, writing as singeing or controlled burning, and from a poem of the same title by John Ashbery, from which we hear this: And not just the major events but the whole incredible Mass of everything happening simultaneously and pairing off, Channeling itself into history, will unroll As carefully and as casually as a conversation in the next room. As interested in exploiting throwaway musical objects as unabashedly romantic, camp-adjacent flights of fancy and romps, Pyrography shows Hecht and his quartet drawing on their wide musical histories to create music both tightly integrated and profoundly restless.
Website: https://pauljhecht.com/pyrography/