Known perhaps in circles such as ours for his out of bounds bending of sounds with the NYC trio, Zs, PATRICK HIGGINS, is one of our day’s most consistent torchbearers of experimental guitar playing, and more generally experimental music and composition. His output comes in many forms (including work in a multitude of ensembles of varying degrees of permanence). His talents are copious, conjuring dreamworlds, and/or hells of sound via processed guitar and not (via method and technique exploration of the instrument). From Higgins own site we now receive “Live performance / Chicago / April 2013”, a video yes of a performance by Higgins in Chicago in 2013. Gorgeously shot (by Robert Greenwood, I think), and nearly shrouded in darkness by the dimly lit environment; Higgins creaks, and crackles, staggers, gets tangled, and reaches heights of ecstacy over the course of the performance’s almost 20 minutes. Throughout the piece the woozy and I’ll say it again, beautiful camera work, fades to blackness filling with a scattered white dust billowing against the blackness. This gives off the appearance of a drift through the cosmos, and could not be a more fitting, and magic bit of video art. PATRICK HIGGINS has taken me there, I have heard the universe in his music and the magic of his sound making has moved me. Seek his recorded music, and his live performances. The Hassle should get on that!