Label: elsewhere

Current 93にも参加する当店大人気の白髪ベテラン音楽家Reinier Van Houdt、ヴァンデルヴァイザー派の音楽家達と頻繁に絡む現行コンテンポラリーの新鋭女性作曲家Germaine Sijstermans、様々な即興系ユニットに参加し現在まで50作以上の関連音源を残しているベーシストKoen Nutters、オランダを拠点に活動する強者3者が初のコラボレーション作をリリース。2022年12月18日にオランダの小さな教会内部で行ったパフォーマンスを音源化したものであり、インディアンハルモニウム、声、フィールドレコーディング、サイン波、テープなど様々なサウンドを優雅に同期した抑揚のある瞑想持続音。流麗なだけでは無いしっかりと深みと重みのある流石の構造です。





This release brings together three Dutch composers/performers, Reinier van Houdt, Germaine Sijstermans, and Koen Nutters, who have each released their own work on elsewhere music in recent years. Nutters, who has collaborated in the past with both van Houdt (Cornelius Cardew project) and Sijstermans (DNK Ensemble, The Names), conceived the idea of a trio performance with the two musicians, which later developed into this three-way collaborative project.

Last December the trio played a concert at the Savelberg Chapel, a small church in Heerlen, Limburg (NL), where they played three pieces, one written by each: Linden (Sijstermans), A Piece with Memories (Nutters), and Harmonic Circles (van Houdt). This release is a live recording of that performance.

Using various instruments including clarinets, indian harmonium, harmona organ, voices, field recordings, sine tones, objects, and tapes, the trio played in perfect synch, giving the three pieces rich, complex layers of sound and profundity, enveloping the audience in a vibrant yet contemplative space.