Electro-acoustic exploration from the duo of Liz Allbee and Burkhard Beins alongside the enormous atmospheres Mark Wastell generates on Tam Tam.

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Liz Allbee - trumpet and live-electronics
Burkhard Beins - synthesizers and live-electronics

Multi-ist Liz Allbee and echtzeit-er Burkhard Beins team up for some live-electro-acoustic explorations. Informed by their connatural musical backgrounds ranging from industrial/noise via musique concrète to free improvisation the two players create interactive fields of an imaginarchic nature.

"Many lesser oddball talents make the proud boast that they will invite you into their strange mental world and amaze you thereby. Allbee not only makes good on the promise, but she refuses to let you out again afterwards. I hereby dub her the Circe of the avant-garde music world, and I have now been turned into a pig" - The Sound Projector

"Burkhard Beins is best known as one of the most distinctive percussionists in European free music, performing in groups both in Berlin (Phosphor, Perlonex, Activity Center) and beyond (The Sealed Knot, Trio Sowari), though on the strength of his two solo albums (...) he's no slouch as a composer either, bringing the same acute ear for timbre and immaculate sense of timing to more fixed structures..." - The Wire



MARK WASTELL

Mark Wastell manages to build enormous atmospheres on the Tam Tam with very little actual activity. His music is dark, deep and beautiful. Slow movements build up sonic pulses that are able to take over rooms and buildings. Over a twenty year period Mark has collaborated with many people including Angharad Davies, Bernard Gunter, Evan Parker, Mattin, Tony Conrad, Keith Rowe, Otomo Yoshihide, Derek Bailey, John Butcher, Toshimaru Nakamura, Lasse Maurhaug, Peter Kowald, Taku Sugimoto, John Zorn and Max Eastley. His regular groups are The Sealed Knot (with Rhodri Davies and Burkhard Beins) and Oceans of Silver & Blood (with Joachim Nordwall). Mark also runs Confront record label.

Lasse Marhaug, Mark Wastell - Kiss of Acid (video trailer) from MonotypeRec on Vimeo.