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High-bias cassette tape with original artwork from artist Alfian Setyo,
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Includes unlimited streaming of Quiet is King
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One piano and acoustic guitar, e-bow, three microphones, and a zoom f8 recorder. These are the materials Stephen Holliger brought down with him one afternoon into the performance gallery at cometogetherspace. The intentions were to abandon any effects processing and create an album without relying on them.
A new space for a new kind of collaboration—between piano, bowed acoustic guitar, and silence, between noise and reverberation of the space, between negative space and the self. In single, improvised takes Holliger recorded the bones of his latest EP Quiet is King with longtime contributor Yea Big on bass clarinet. Silence and sustain are an active member in this trio as much as its performers.
Piano, bass clarinet, and bowed acoustic guitar drone, swell and collide through tangible air pressure, resonating between the ears, each note from breath or string hugged and trailed by the natural reverb of the space it was recorded in. Each silence, of which there are many, feels deliberate, sustained, honored.
The silence carries its own accompaniment with field recordings from Holliger's rural home and creaking wood from the piano bench.
credits
released March 1, 2024
Stephen Holliger - Piano, prepared bowed acoustic guitar, piano bench, field recordings
Yea Big - Bass Clarinet
album artwork by Alfian Setyo
mixed and mastered by Stephen Holliger
camera - Allison Anderson
editor - Alexandra Leopold
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