In light of their debut release ‘First Passage / Excommunicated’ on Archaic Vaults, Severin Black and Vanessa Bedoret will be performing improvised material and themes from this EP live together for the first time. Their collaboration first took form at the beginning of lockdown as a one-off Montez Press radio show via Whatsapp voice notes – a reaction to isolation and the pitfalls of making socially-distanced music. Severin Black’s simultaneous interest in droning energies and the destruction of fidelity is present here in split forms, woven between Vanessa Bedoret’s violin invocations, which are performed both acoustically and processed. The full body of work takes influence from ancient rituals, pilgrimages, and their new context within the current social climate.

https://archaicvaults.bandcamp.com/album/first-passage-excommunicated