Larum continue inching towards their April 11th album release with another far out single. After the surprising collaboration with Bill Orcutt, this time they've teamed up with South Korean cellist Okkyung Lee for their latest celebration of the almost thousand year old, groundbreaking and still resonating works and concepts of Hildegard von Bingen.
Considering Frank and Doxas' experimental nature and Lee's improvisational tendencies you know this isn't going to be dinner party music, but if it is I want an invite to your next one; I'll bring some great Portuguese wine. Frank immediately sets the tone with what sounds like a stuck record providing rhythmic assistance of sorts for the musicians who take their time warming up, whilst deciding on the winding paths they're about to weave, and wind they do.
Frank in turn creates a gently provocative, suitably restless but not unsettling soundscape to cocoon the sax and cello lines as they take their time to develop layer by abstract layer, until there is some recognisable instrumental parts of sorts. In turn he increases the percussion but never at the expense of deflecting attention from the wind and strings. But just as you think you're party to the freshest new neoclassical kids on the block, Lee and Doxas bow their heads and let their instruments dissolve into an angry hornet's nest of machine noise. Roll on the LP.
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