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Yannis Kyriakides & Lucio Capece
- Juncture / Live in Brussels
[tng1010/tng3005] |
Reviews:
YANNIS KYRIAKIDES & LUCIO CAPECE - JUNCTION (MP3 by audioTong)
YANNIS KYRIAKIDES & LUCIO CAPECE - LIVE IN BRUSSELS (MP3 by audioTong)
Yannis Kyriakides on laptop and Lucio Capece on soprano saxophone and bass clarinet met in a small studio in
Paris in January 2003 to record the album "Juncture" which is now available online from the fine audioTong label.
Capece makes use of a whole array of extended playing techniques to create long sustained tones, short throbs and
bubbling, hissing and squeaking textures that match perfectly with Kyriakides' mostly subdued electronic
pulses and ticks.
With a few exceptions the duo doesn't go for the large crescendos, but organizes the sound
horizontally, creating vivid fields of small acoustic events. Tension is gradually built and resolved and
things are kept in motion all the time, with quiet passages, sometimes just above the threshold of audibility,
alternating with more fragmented playing.
Together with these studio tracks audioTong also releases a live recording of Kyriakides and Capece at the
Van Vlaanderen Festival in Brussels in 2004. Again they play laptop and wind instruments and again the result
is fascinating.
The first of the two sets starts in a quiet way, along the line of the 'classic' improv approach, with soft
gliding electronic tones and the careful hiss and bubbling of the acoustic instruments. Gradually the volume
is raised and the playing gets more and more hectic. The dense textured noise is then transformed into
a beautiful drone passage, which is built upon the warm sound of the bass clarinet framed by subtle electronics.
The second set stays in the drone area throughout. Over the course of about 20 minutes a variety of delicate
warm and clear sounds is woven together, ranging from loop-like repetitive structures to stretched-out amorphous
fields. Once more this demonstrates the duo's ability for carefully reacting on each other's playing and their
subtle sense for structure, variety and the interaction of electronic and acoustic sounds.
Both albums are certainly among the best online-releases I've come across recently, and proof again that there
is high quality music available online that well deserves finding an audience.
(MSS,
Vital Weekly 541)
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