Percussionist Sheldon Suter steps out from groups including Musique Brute, Big Bold Back Bone, Marco von Orelli 6 or Jurg Wickihalder Orchestra for a seductive album of solo percussion, using zithers, portable turntables, a shruti box and harmonica in immersive works intermixing six pulsing and serene lullabies with five ominous nocturnal environments.
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UPC: 5609063100846
Label: Shhpuma
Catalog ID: SHH084CD
Squidco Product Code: 34164
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2023
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in Lugano Besso, Italy, on September 22nd and 23rd, 2022, by RSI: Tiziano Trotto..
"To listen to Berceuses et Nocturnes, is to enter a hallucinatory night-realm animated with hypnagogic serenades and starlit reveries. The music derives its influence from Indonesian gamelan and Satie's chimerical piano works, but also the Reichian-indebted minimalism of Chicagoan post-rockers Tortoise and woozy time-warping turntablist mumble of The Caretaker. Rarefied meditations, glistening particles lingering like lullaby kisses upon the lips of the heavy-lidded, as he sows his radiant constellations, cosmic tintinnabulations ringing through obsidian night, haunting the great halls of sleep."-Shhpuma
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• Show Bio for Sheldon Suter Drummer Sheldon Suter, born on 22/2/1971 in Locarno, TI, Switzerland, is a member of Musique Brute, Big Bold Back Bone, Marco von Orelli 6, Jurg Wickihalder Orchestra. ^ Hide Bio for Sheldon Suter
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Track Listing:
1. Berceuse I 3:16
2. Berceuse II 3:59
3. Berceuse III 4:20
4. Nocturne II 4:04
5. Nocturne III 5:24
6. Berceuses IV 2:21
7. Berceuses V 3:48
8. Nocturne IV 2:59
9. Nocturne V 4:31
10. Berceuses VI 1:57
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Electro-Acoustic
Organized Sound and Sample Based Music
Electroacoustic Composition
Percussion & Drums
Solo Artist Recordings
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
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