“Are we still in San Francisco?” a visiting relative recently asked me as we reached the western end of our hike through Land’s End. It’s a good question.
One could consider Land’s End Eternal, the latest full-length from saxophonist and composer Cole Pulice, to be asking the same question. Mixed and mastered by Oakland producer Chuck Johnson and perfectly at home on LA’s all-genre-loving label Leaving Records, the new work is named after one of SF’s natural treasures, yet it masterfully expands outside of simple boundaries of place or time through its free jazz, cinematic soundscape conjurings. It reaches its climax in the final track “After the Rain,” a nine-minute epic featuring the wordless, spiritual intonation of fellow local artist Maria BC.
Whether heard amid furry and feathered earthlings at the roots of sprawling trees or under the roof of a friendly, antifascist arts center in the heart of the city, the ambient sax sounds of Cole Pulice embody the very thing they seek to explore: “the notion of a bridge between worlds.”
