This CD was recorded over five shows and six months—and a little bit of a warning—the music on this CD is freeform. It isn’t for the faint of heart or mind. But the music on Live Fragments every bit emotionally and cerebrally fulfilling as any other genre. Greg Hanec and Sarah Otsuji use both electronic and acoustic instruments; they electronically manipulate to the point of knotty loops and use their instruments like virtuosos, and drench it all in delay like Bitches Brew. It’s a solid set of improvisations and is highly recommended for putting you in alternative headspaces. The minor disheartenment of this disc is the “Fragments”—some of the tracks fade out to silence prematurely, and fade back in to a different part of the show. Given the post-modern nature of the music, the album could’ve been given a post-modern treatment like Burning Star Core’s Papercuts Theater, which was made up of 40 live recordings and arranged into four non-stop parts. This is totally nitpicking though, and Live Fragments is another find in Winnipeg’s lawless noise scene. (Independent, www.myspace.com/greghanec) Taylor Burgess