At certain angles through the mist and the fog, the Golden Gate Bridge as seen from Lands End park looks like it connects to another world. This feeling of teetering on the edge of the planet informed the work of the more visionary composers associated with San Francisco, like Morton Subotnick and Terry Riley, and it infuses Cole Pulice’s Land’s End Eternal. The saxophonist and composer relocated to the Bay Area from Minneapolis after the Covid-19 lockdown, and their new work is pervaded by the sense that they have arrived at a terrestrial limit and have begun reaching across the astral divide.
Pulice made their name with saxophone solos that sound like they’re being transmitted from Jon Hassell’s fourth world. The massive 2023 track “If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You…