Melos Kalpa is a quintet of musicians employing unconventional instruments and strategies to make music that exists somewhere at the intersection of improvisation, minimalism and sublimated reverie.
Musicians Agathe Max (Mesange, Papivores), Jem Doulton (Thurston Moore Band, Dead Days Beyond Help), David Morris (Red River Dialect) and Tom Relleen (Tomaga) perform via the conduit of producer Marta Salogni's intricate tape preparations, which create rich textures, delays and distortions of their unique instrumental palette (marimba, vibraphone, violin, guitar, mandolin, Buchla Music Easel and more). Using techniques of chance and (non)intention to determine the direction of composition, the group feel their way into new and terrains.