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YANNIS KYRIAKIDES & LUCIO CAPECE - Live in Brussels 
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Live in Brussels is the second part of AudioTong's first double release which comes from an excellent
new electronics/improvisation duo: Yannis Kyriakides (laptop) and Lucio Capece (soprano saxophone,
bass clarinet).

The album was recorded during the duo's performance at Van Vlaanderen Festival in 2004.

Yannis says:

The Brussels set was a fine day. We travelled in the morning from Amsterdam, listening to Lucio mix
of eighties music in the car. (Did that influence us?.. perhaps..) We played three sets in this house
of a musician, to an audience who was part of a tour of open houses. Lucio you might know the details
more about this...

Lucio:

The festival happened in houses. Was organised by a Radio station. People had to make a tour,
listening to half an hour sets in each place. Julia had the right to choose the musicians that played
at her house and she invited us.

Julia's kids were really paying attention to anything we did. They were there all the time. The
atmosphere was very nice, we had some conversations, coffee, beer between each set.

Listen:

Download:

1. Yannis Kyriakides & Lucio Capece - Live in Brussels (part 1)  (mp3, 30 MB)
2. Yannis Kyriakides & Lucio Capece - Live in Brussels (part 2)  (mp3, 26 MB)

Artworks: 

download front and back cover artwork in jpg files 

Whole album: download .zip 

Other download options at archive.org

 
All content of this site (including audio files) is available under Creative Commons license.  

 

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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