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Released back in November, dessus oben alto up is the first collaborative recording between drummer, composer, and experimental musician Andrea Belfi and the respected polymath and acoustic musician (notably guitar) Jules Reidy. The four expansive pieces, dessus, oben and alto form side A and the fifteen minute, slow and unfolding up, side B. The album was recorded by Marco Anulli during a residency at Caille’s, a sound studio and arts institution housed in a 19th century machine factory in Berlin where both musicians are based.
The accompanying notes share how Reidy and Belfi’s approaches have much in common, bringing together compositional precision and electroacoustic rigour with improvisational freedom, the immediate gratifications of rhythmic pulse, and an overtly lyrical sensibility.
A personal favourite is alto, a piece that fizzes with a transformative vibrant energy, propelled by Belfi’s percussive groove and Reidy’s explorative 12 string acoustic. An album to offer yourself up to and just let go.
Out now on Marionette.
Bandcamp: https://andreabelfijulesreidy.bandcamp.com/album/dessus-oben-alto-up
