The striking first entry into the CUSP label’s discography comes from Cologne-based sound artist Lu Katavist, employing a variety of synthesizer modules controlled with the Haken Continuum. Katavist’s (real name Luka Höfler) approach to the material derived on 'Inburst' has been wholly improvisational, but not in any sense traditional. Rather than acquiring any sort of mastery of the equipment chosen to build the sounds heard, Höfler has opted to adopt an almost automatic writing approach to sculpting the material, which he describes as ‘blurring the lines between creating and listening’.

https://cuspeditions.bandcamp.com/album/lu-katavist-inburst


Inburst LP (Preview)- Lu Katavist (CUSP001)

Preview track from Debris In Lower Earth Orbit - Twinkle³ with Sidsel Endresen LP + CD on CUSP

Sidsel Endresen (voice)
Richard Scott (electronics)
David Ross (Drosscillator, kantele, mbira)
Clive Bell (shakuhachi and other woodwind)

Twinkle³ have teamed up with Sidsel Endresen, Norwegian singer, avant garde pioneer and ECM recording artist. The result is Debris In Lower Earth Orbit, a graceful, yet precarious dance through the weightless slipstream of orbital flotsam and jetsam.

Twinkle³ with Sidsel Endresen - Cosmos And Iridium Embrace (CUSP002)

Title Track from Richard Scott's 'Several Circles' (CUSP003)
Available on Double LP + CD in June

Richard Scott’s ‘Several Circles’ is a seamless blend of improvised performances and forensically detailed electronic music that bristles, writhes and grows like some mutated living organism.

Recorded between 2013 and 2015 in both Manchester and Berlin, this vital new album is a combination of instant, improvised performances and highly structured acousmatic compositions that have been, in Richard’s own words, “microscopically edited, constructed, layered and mixed over many hours in the studio.” Far from being a dry, academic exercise, Richard’s music shower the ears with delicious and incessantly changing sound pools.

In recent years, music created using Modular Synthesizers has come to dominate much of the landscape of experimental electronic music, with a glut of archival material from institutes like GRM being reissued and the popularity and accessibility of the instrumentation drawing a new generation of fanatical upstarts all releasing albums entirely crafted on their chosen kit. In this revitalized, arguably over populated scene, Richard Scott’s ‘Several Circles’ arrives as a stark and distinct anomaly, speaking volumes of his mastery of this customized analogue equipment.
The album is a vibrant and exceptional portrait of Richard’s voice as a musician, unencumbered by restrictive themes or fixed compositional techniques, instead offering an all-encompassing view of his practices that, through their very intuition, sound cohesive. It’s an entry in to the already auteristic cannon of Cusp Editions that will surely be held in a pride of place.

Richard Scott - Several Circles (CUSP003)

A luminous scene of interplay between melody, breath, and the shakuhachi flute.

Preview track from Clive Bell’s 'Asakusa Follies' Available on LP + CD in June.

Breath is a central theme in the album where a punctuation of purring, spitting, flicking and gasping intersects the tones, overtones and noise of the shakuhachi.

Clive Bell: shakuhachi flutes, pi-saw free reed flutes & hmong khene

Produced by Sylvia Hallett and Clive Bell
Mastered Rashad Becker at D&M
Design by Ecka Mordecai

Clive Bell - The Scarlet Gang ((hmong khene duo) CUSP004)

A luminous scene of interplay between melody, breath, and the shakuhachi flute.

Preview track from Clive Bell’s 'Asakusa Follies' Available on LP + CD in June.

Breath is a central theme in the album where a punctuation of purring, spitting, flicking and gasping intersects the tones, overtones and noise of the shakuhachi. 

Clive Bell: shakuhachi flutes, pi-saw free reed flutes & hmong khene

Produced by Sylvia Hallett and Clive Bell
Mastered Rashad Becker at D&M
Design by Ecka Mordecai

Clive Bell - Silk Factories (CUSP004)

Unpredictable micro-rhythms awkwardly roaming across an electronic wasteland……. Preview track from David Ross - 'Stochastic Moods'  LP + DL on CUSP

Composed and Performed by David Ross (Instruments: Davestation / Drosscillator)

Released March 2, 2018

Mastering: Rashad Becker
Photography: Judith Goodman
Art Direction: Ecka Mordecai
Graphic Design: Lewis McLean

David Ross - Zero Point Field (CUSP005)

Boundless solar oscillations in exquisite cycle: A work delicately crafted from field recordings, synthesizer, solar oscillator and sampler.…..Preview track from Miki Yui - 'Mills' LP, CD + DL on CUSP

Released late Apri, 2018

Mastering: Rashad Becker
Front Cover ‘Herbarium Kenya’ by Stefan Schneider
Graphic Design: Lewis McLean

Miki Yui - Mica (CUSP006)

Miki Yui - Dial Sun (CUSP006)

Miki Yui - Solareo / Excerpt (CUSP006)

Unpredictable micro-rhythms awkwardly roaming across an electronic wasteland……. Preview track from David Ross - 'Stochastic Moods' LP + DL on CUSP

Composed and Performed by David Ross (Instruments: Davestation / Drosscillator)

Released March 2, 2018

Mastering: Rashad Becker
Photography: Judith Goodman
Art Direction: Ecka Mordecai
Graphic Design: Lewis McLean

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