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2016-11-03 16:45:52
Ensemble neoN (Aurora)Oslo’s Ensemble neoN have recorded before – 2013’s finespun, relentlessly dark collaboration with singer-songwriter Susanna Karolina Wallumrod – but this is their debut album proper, and with three out of five works written by ensemble members, it’s clearly a fertile collective. Influences are fun and multifarious, typical of today’s young-guard Norwegian composers. The CD booklet contains an essay by pop experimentalist Jenny Hval which gives poetic insight into various non-denominational cultural bents at play. The album is expertly landscaped, too, opening with the nebulous heat haze of Kristine Tjøgersen’s Travelling Light 2 then progressing through endearingly tactile clunks, scrapes and wonky grooves in Jan Martin Smørdal’s My Favourite Thing 2; languorous, faltering stuff in Monocots by Oren Ambarchi and James Rushford; august and overexposed drones in Alvin Lucier’s Two Circles; and finally Julian Skar’s evasive, nervy Kunston á Tvile 2. Continue reading...
2013-04-10 19:30:04
LSO St Luke's, LondonThere are few composers prepared, minutes before the close of a concert devoted to their recent work, to give it some with an electric guitar. Tansy Davies, though, is one. Previously hidden behind a laptop on the St Luke's stage, she gingerly hoisted on a red and white Stratocaster, launching her 2004 work Neon into its frenzied final section.With its irreverent slap-bass synth and fusion of blunt textures and funk rhythms, vividly brought out by the Azalea Ensemble, Neon is in many ways typical Davies. But its extrovert character contrasted strongly with the rest of this fascinating concert, mostly drawn from the recent Troubairitz album. From the eerie world of Salt Box – reminiscent, with its unpredictable electronic track over reed organ and chamber ensemble, of a poltergeist in a village church – to the doodling profile of the Loure for solo violin (based on the Loure […]
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