I am always looking for something intoxicating, electrifying: be it in the substance or in the movement and its obsession.
ONE STEP is the result of nearly three years of research and work. It is a collection of recorded rehearsals, far from the usual approach in a studio. My intention was to give this album as a trace of my process, a time in my life, a step.
What one hears on this CD is what one hears when I perform live. The only studio inputs are equalization and mastering. There is no looper, no overdub, no other (treatment on the) effects. The sound of the sax goes through a reverberation (an Oursa Major); the bamboo is treated with the head of a guitar amplifier with three degrees, a delay and a reverberation. That is all.

Linear: Tenor Sax
One Step: String Bamboo
Desert City: Soprano Sax
Sub: Tenor Sax
Ghost: String Bamboo; Vocals by Myriam Boucris

REVIEWS

.no exit:: one step No Exit is the work of Swiss saxophonist/string bamboo player, Joseph Frusciante. These tracks are comprised of sax and bamboo sounds processed (via pedals I assume) to make the sounds collide and pile up on each other. No Exit is the perfect name for this project as the listener is met with a pretty claustrophobic sonic environment. The final track (in which Frusciante is joined by vocalist, Myriuam Boucris) brings a small relief to the listener with more gentle, ethereal environment is created, but even this builds into what sounds like Diamanda Galas & James Plotkin squaring off. This is great stuff!!! Recommended for sure! Released by Greece's 1000+1 Tilt label.
---Public Guilt

..no exit:: one step Behind No Exit is one Joseph Fruiscante, of whom I never heard, and on 'One Step' he plays, according to the cover 'sax and bamboo string', while on one song one Myriam Boucris sings. Those are the facts about this cd, while we are kept in the dark about other information. In thirty minutes, Fruiscante plays some powerful music, clearly recognizable on his saxophone and less clearly on his string bamboo. What the cover doesn't tell us, is the fact that studio treatments play an equally important role here, especially delay and reverb are two important features (or perhaps I am wrong, and we don't have a studio here, but is the whole thing recorded in a tunnel). Fruiscante's music is minimal, even a bit drone related, but at the same time, and perhaps strangely enough it is also forcefully present, even a bit distorted in the deeper bass end of the release. An odd combination of mood music and some more distorted elements, Fruiscante moves here with outside any regular movements or rigid paths of improvisations, ambient, drone or noise. And that is, in my book, very fine.
(FdW) ---vital