New music from XT (saxophone player Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott) in the form of an exhilarating, super compressed, reflective re-assembling of a dozen years working together. Re-animating free improvisation with a Chicago house palette, Deorlaf X is made up of frenetic slabs of mutated multiphonics and triggered percussion, suspended in bouts of possessed reflexive quiet. 

Where the duo’s 2019 release Palina'tufa on Empty Editions focused primarily on a response to the real (and imagined) landscapes of Hong Kong, Deorlaf X is located in Dalston, and specifically at OTO. Wrung through Shaun Crook’s studio over three nights, the recordings dug from XT’s archive aren’t simply ‘duo’ - instead they actively draw on their public and social contexts, involving the influence of audience, engineers and other visiting musicians - Ghédalia Tazartès, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Senyawa, RP Boo and others. “A changing cast of OTO guests, audience and emotions hosted each time in a new London. XT structures sound an ongoing attempt to listen and learn about the rich and transformative affordances of the situations we occupy.” 

The resulting record puts a pin through a dialogue between Abbott and Wright, between histories, potentials, fact, fiction, ideas, friends, audiences, and spaces. The heavy use of referencing recalls the footwork or house traditions of sampling across all manner of influences; what’s recalled is primarily the structures of jazz - Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, Anthony Braxton - but also Ann Quin, Clarice Lispector, Anna Halprin. What’s created in recall is a kind of diary, a hyper re-membering - a blisteringly warped kind of future music. 

Recorded by James Dunn, Shaun Crook and Paul Skinner. Assembled, mixed and re-recorded 19, 20 and 21 January, 2020 by XT at Lockdown Studio, Cable Street. Engineer Shaun Crook. Sounds/design by XT. Cover painting Leon Kossoff Dalston Junction No.3, June 1973 oil on board, 20.5 x 25 cm. © The Estate of Leon Kossoff.

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ROKU026 - Deorlaf X [sample]

“Two Duos” is pressed from cellist Okkyung Lee’s most recent OTO Residency; the first side a duo with Jérôme Noetinger on Revox B77 and the second with Nadia Ratsimandresy on Ondes Martenot. Cut together, the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello, it’s magnetic reproduction, and the dual controls of the machine invented to expand on its musical qualities.

On the A side Noetinger’s opening tape hiss establishes a current; an electrical partner who gives Lee room to slide across and stretch out. Progressively the cello is returned, duplicated and manipulated with increased velocity and distortion. Noetinger draws out the full extent of Lee’s extended technique; rewinding strands of Lee's horse hair and transmuting her percussive attacks into shuddering echos, before letting his own concrete interjections spin the duo's sonic tussle into an almost romantic daydream.

On side B the ondes (invented by French cellist and wartime radio operator Maurice Eugene Louis Martenot and so loved by Bernard Parmegiani, Varese and Messiaen) seems shaken from classical tradition and those long, drawn out horrorscapes it has come to be associated with. In a duel with Lee, Ratsimandresy grasps the ondes’ extraordinary capacity for dexterity, nuance and speed, hounding Lee’s cello in a bid to drive her instrument out of the past and into the future.

Two fantastic pairings and a testament to the freshness with which Lee and her collaborators continue to work with their instruments.

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Okkyung Lee / cello

Jérôme Noetinger / revox b77

Nadia Ratsimandresy / ondes martenot

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Thursday 28th March & Friday 29th March by Paul Skinner and Shaun Crook. Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Designed by Maja Larrson. ROKU027.

ROKU027 - Okkyung Lee / Jérôme Noetinger / Nadia Ratsimandresy - “Two Duos” [sample]

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A I W A - Some Time Maybe

Unreleased work included on the "A Turn of Breath: Deluxe Edition" 2xLP
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R8 - Ian William Craig - "Heaviness Sketch in Winter" from A Turn of Breath 2xLP

Ka Baird - Symanimagenic

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Full album available October 25, 2019

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Respires

Symanimagenic

Ka Baird - Symanimagenic

From tape 'House (Unbuilt), by Belarusian composer Kirill Mazhai. Released October 25 2019 through Moloton. @kirill-mazhai

House (Unbuilt)

Kirill Mazhai - 7th Floor

Final track on 'Mechanosphere', Cam Deas' debut album for The Death of Rave

Available on CD and download from Boomkat.com 31/10/19
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Mechanosphere

Solitude

Cam Deas - Solitude [RAVE029]

For The Past

Greg Fox - From The Cessation Of What

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From the Cessation of What

Greg Fox - From The Cessation Of What

Loïse Bulot's original octophonic piece, Zenith, has been commissioned by INA-GRM for Akousma Festival 2019 edition in Paris. Here mixed in stereo, this electro-acoustic composition made of piano strings recordings, exponential speed variations, circular movements and attraction phenomenons depicts surprisingly well the complex sun’s gravitational force on the planets.

ITW & Preview: youtu.be/tOgbSpi9gE0


Written & produced by Loïse Bulot.
Commissioned by INA-GRM.

Mastered by Anders Peterson at GS Mastering & Post.
Artwork & design by Benoît Lefeuvre.

Ka Baird - Symanimagenic

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