A collection of live recordings from Sverdrup Balance, the trio of Lawrence Casserley on signal processing instrument, Yoko Miura on piano & Melodeon, and Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg on voice, recorded during their 2019 autumn tour in U.K., Belgium and North Italy, a skewed but generally optimistic group of ea- and voice improvisers with a wealth of creative inspirations.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: UK Recorded in concert during October and November, 2019. Tracks 1, 3, 5 and 8 - Oratorienhot, Leuven, Beldium, 27 October, 2019. Tracks 2, 4 and 7 - Ateulier Ruben Esposito, Spazio Lomellini 17, Genova, Italy, 16 November, 2019. Track 6 - Arch 1, London, UK ,22 October 2019
"In October and November, 2019, following the release of their first album, Isla Decepción, the Sverdrup Balance trio toured in the UK, Belgium and Italy. While the album focused on specific areas of their playing, the tour gave scope for a broader spectrum. In this album of excerpts from the tour we visit some of that broader range of playing. Most of this CD comes from two of the most remarkable concerts, in Leuven and Genova. We have added an interlude from the first concert of the tour at Arch 1 in London.
In our first album Isla Decepción in 2018, we visited an island just off the Antarctic continent. Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern sky shining above the Arctic Ocean.
Our present album Arcturus is displaying deeper forays into our sonic universe and their components or streams in new kinds of constellations of energies, flows, inspirations and moments. Our music is based on spontaneous improvisation in the instant and built with different view points and musical references through the whole performance. Each member of Sverdrup Balance has his own background and musical aesthetic, our collaborative work is intended to extend and blend their own music into new realms and unexpected colours, shapes, interactions, dynamics.
The signal processing of Lawrence Casserley, heard with such luminaries as Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Phil Wachsmann, Viv Corringham, Martin Mayes and many others is transforming the sounds of pianist Yoko Miura and the voice of Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg in real time by manipulating their pitch, textures, speed, etc in a wide kaleidoscopic palette seeming to reach the infinity of outer space, from which we selected eight pieces from nine 2019 tour dates in London, Brighton, Leuven, Roccasparvera, Genova, Bergamo and Bologna."-Sverdrup Balance