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Louder, more gestural, bringing the evening to a climax in two ways – the temporal one and also by taking the audience on a long journey to the satisfactory end of the piece – more musically referential towards the end especially as Rowe dropped in a distinct seesawing 6\/4 rhythm. Theme and statement and variations... all here but not under the figure of traditional moves. But the strategies are very much the same. They just require a shift in the mode of listening. The audience were prepared to do that, consequently enjoyed the music and gave them warm applause. Deservedly.” (Rod Warner). Keith Rowe : guitar, electronics, Mark Wastell : amplified textures, electronics. Recorded by David Reid at i-and-e, Dublin 2006.Fully remastered for Record Store Day 2020. 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We hear faint orchestral swells and then voices, both spoken and sung, the recordings degraded so far as to be barely recognisable. These add a strange authenticity to this imagined territory, the acoustic purity of Toop and Wastell’s instruments providing a counterpoint that expands the stage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Confront Recordings","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50511324184907,"sku":"1146605","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/18068cd3-1312-43f0-a1f2-d82a4d808d0b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727887301"},{"product_id":"for-sake-of-joy-of-study-of-oneself-together","title":"For Sake Of Joy Of Study Of Oneself Together","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The origins of this piece date back to the 1st December 1991. 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All of John’s activity that day was on the recording and through repeated listening over the following two decades, I became very attached to the spoken word piece. Earlier this year I finally got around to transcribing the text, hoping that one day I’d be able to include it in a project. This little dream was enabled by Trestle Records and their generous offer to organise and record a session. Finally John’s inspirational words can be heard again and influence others the way they did me, as a young man, twenty six years ago.\" (Mark Wastell, December 2017) The One Day Band sessions are an ongoing series of improvisations hosted by Trestle Records. Musicians, sometimes meeting for the first time, are invited to collaborate on a record made in a single day. 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Once again the music is all improvised, but for the most part this new release digs deeper into a unified approach to sustained sound than the debut. To be sure, there are passages when the three instrumentalists carve out distinct areas of interrogation, improvising as three voices meticulously weaving their output together, such as the opening moments of “soaring” where Mayas produces a carpet of percussive resonance both directly upon the piano’s strings and mediated through objects, Klein blows unpitched breaths in alliterative spams, and Voutchkova weds vocal fry, wordless meandering, and delicate, weightless bowed violin tones, but the bulk of the record almost feels compositional in terms of how cohesive the individual transmissions operate as one. 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