Purchase the full album through https://bingsantospirito.bandcamp.com - digital or full gatefold 12" LP. 

The Climb the first half of Bing/Santospirito's epic performance of The Quoll at St David's Cathedral in nipaluna.

Epic improvisers Natalya Bing (violin) and Joshua Santospirito (guitar) are joined by Randal Muir (on Tasmania's largest pipe organ) to deliver an immersive, hypnotically beautiful and strange elegy to the end of the world as we currently know it. A two-part concert recorded live within the gorgeous acoustics of a cathedral.

A post-marsupial melodrama: set in a deep-future lutruwita (Tasmania), where the landscape is now only inhabited by fire, lichens and animal-headed ghosts wandering aimlessly throughout the high country.

Commissioned by MONA FOMA 2021 and captured live in front of a sold out audience at St Davids cathedral in nipaluna; this stunning and intense performance of The Quoll is now released as the debut album by Bing/Santospirito.

To watch the entire concert go to youtu.be/8IPuS17Ge6s
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releases February 9, 2022

Natalya Bing - violin
Joshua Santospirito - guitar
with special guest Randal Muir on pipe organ

Recorded and mixed by Ivan Johnston
Mastered by Myles Mumford
Cover art by Joshua Santospirito with art photography by Lou Conboy

Thanks and love
Jo Couper, Lou Conboy, Sally Rees, Jacob Collings, Joseph Cann, Brian Ritchie & Shelley McCuaig and everyone at at Mona Foma, Sabio Evans, Jen Goodluck, Damien Kingston, Claire Johnston, Q Bank Gallery and the Queenstown community, Arts Tasmania and Parks Tasmania, the rangers at Cradle Mountain, Penny Contemporary.

The LP cover features art by Joshua Santospirito from his series The Quoll. These artworks have also been exhibited at Q Bank Gallery (Queenstown 2020), Penny Contemporary (nipaluna 2022) and the Wilderness Gallery (Cradle Mountain 2022). For more about the art go to www.pennycontemporary.com.au

The Climb - The Quoll part 1

Clip from live performance in Hobart recorded by Jo Couper.
Violin - Natalya Bing
Guitar - Joshua Santospirito

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Demo track of intense and intoxicating meditation on joy and hope

Joy Demo, Dec 2022

Bing/Santospirito composed the music to A Mouthful of 'C' Words which was performed at Mona Foma 2023 at the Peacock Theatre in nipaluna. 

Violin and percussion ~ Natalya Bing
Piano ~ Joshua Santospirito
Recorded and mixed ~ Jethro Pickett at Glaziers Bay, melukerdee country, lutruwita

Starring Fengyi Liu & Jem Nicholas, the play was directed by Chris Mead and written by five Tasmanian authors. 

​Carrie McLean - Writer
Stephanie Jack - Writer
Hera Fox - Writer
Andy Vagg - Writer
Matthew Cooke - Writer
Chris Mead - Director and Dramaturg
Fengyi Liu - Actor
Jem Nicholas - Actor
Natalya Bing - Composer
Joshua Santospirito - Composer
Jason James - Lighting Design
Producer - Lucien Simon
Produced and commissioned by Salamanca Arts Centre.
Presented in association with Mona Foma.
Supported by Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) fund – an Australian Government initiative.

A Mouthful of 'C' Words ~ Scene 7

The Huon Horror is the third track from our EP 
Available at https://bingsantospirito.bandcamp.com/ from 1st June 2023

Music for Opera #1 ~ High drama on the water 
Three pieces for violin and piano, recorded on a river 

Raw recordings, unmixed and unmastered, these pieces were captured whilst the band was recording compositions for a theatre play (A Mouthful of 'C' Words for Mona Foma 2023). 

Originally we had thought these warm-up pieces were throwaway improvised fragments. We changed our minds after repeated listens. Somehow we seemed to have channelled some gothic emotions, maybe bubbling up from the violent history of the area. 

During these sessions Josh was awake at 5am on the deck above the water and witnessed his first rakali; a beautiful native Australian mammalian water-rat with a splendid white-tipped tail. In Robbie Arnott's book 'Flames' there is a rakali river god dwelling in the South Esk River (in Northern lutruwita / Tasmania).

Bing/Santospirito are 
Natalya Bing - Violin
Joshua Santospirito - Piano

Studio recording - Jethro Pickett
Studio dog - Juno  
Photo - Ursula Woods

Recorded on the stolen land of the melukerdee people, Glaziers Bay, lutruwita / Tasmania. 

We pay our sincerest respects to the palawa people who have made music on this country since time immemorial.

Thanks to ~ Jo Couper, Nick Maher, Ursula, Jethro and Juno, Lucien Simon, Chris Mead, Salamanca Arts Centre, Brian Ritchie and Shelley McCuaig and everyone at Mona Foma, our friends and family and everyone who continually supports us in our music and art-lives.

The Huon Horror

An improv duo, combining classical with artmusic to create intense and mesmerising live performances, ambient music and soundtracks. Natalya Bing (violin / percussion / piano) & Joshua Santospirito (guitar / percussion / synth & piano)

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