The Wormhole introduce The Swifter - a new trio featuring Andrea Belfi (drums and percussion), BJNilsen (electronics) and Simon James Phillips (piano) - on three tantalisingly spacious live recordings made in the Grunewald Church, Berlin. The players operate in discrete discourse with the building's unique resonant architecture, using its airy aesthetic qualities and stone construction to deftly accentuate the harmonically rich tones and textures of their delicate gestures. Phillips plays a Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand, which is subsequently processed by Nilsen and punctuated by Belfi's fluid, distinctive style in a feedback system of measured, tempered sonorities. Their first piece 'End of Capstan Bars' starts out creaking and keeling, evoking "the loneliness within a ship's hold" but evolves into a gorgeous and minimal wash of spiritual jazz tones and tranquil bliss also recalling Edward Larry Gordon's 'Celestial Vibrations'; 'Neap Tide' is quieter, space afforded to the fluttering keys and pensile electronics; 'Swallow' the seductive centrepiece, evolves rippling drum patterns and plangent harmonics that diffuse like incense; with 'Wave Guidance Allows Three' Belfi locks onto an urgent, metronomic rhythm while Phillips' keys and Nilsen's electronics accumulate a stirring mass of energy, dissipating when Belfi flickers into impossibly dextrous double time.
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The Wormhole introduce The Swifter - a new trio featuring Andrea Belfi (drums and percussion), BJNilsen (electronics) and Simon James Phillips (piano) - on three tantalisingly spacious live recordings made in the Grunewald Church, Berlin. The players operate in discrete discourse with the building's unique resonant architecture, using its airy aesthetic qualities and stone construction to deftly accentuate the harmonically rich tones and textures of their delicate gestures. Phillips plays a Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand, which is subsequently processed by Nilsen and punctuated by Belfi's fluid, distinctive style in a feedback system of measured, tempered sonorities. Their first piece 'End of Capstan Bars' starts out creaking and keeling, evoking "the loneliness within a ship's hold" but evolves into a gorgeous and minimal wash of spiritual jazz tones and tranquil bliss also recalling Edward Larry Gordon's 'Celestial Vibrations'; 'Neap Tide' is quieter, space afforded to the fluttering keys and pensile electronics; 'Swallow' the seductive centrepiece, evolves rippling drum patterns and plangent harmonics that diffuse like incense; with 'Wave Guidance Allows Three' Belfi locks onto an urgent, metronomic rhythm while Phillips' keys and Nilsen's electronics accumulate a stirring mass of energy, dissipating when Belfi flickers into impossibly dextrous double time.
The Wormhole introduce The Swifter - a new trio featuring Andrea Belfi (drums and percussion), BJNilsen (electronics) and Simon James Phillips (piano) - on three tantalisingly spacious live recordings made in the Grunewald Church, Berlin. The players operate in discrete discourse with the building's unique resonant architecture, using its airy aesthetic qualities and stone construction to deftly accentuate the harmonically rich tones and textures of their delicate gestures. Phillips plays a Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand, which is subsequently processed by Nilsen and punctuated by Belfi's fluid, distinctive style in a feedback system of measured, tempered sonorities. Their first piece 'End of Capstan Bars' starts out creaking and keeling, evoking "the loneliness within a ship's hold" but evolves into a gorgeous and minimal wash of spiritual jazz tones and tranquil bliss also recalling Edward Larry Gordon's 'Celestial Vibrations'; 'Neap Tide' is quieter, space afforded to the fluttering keys and pensile electronics; 'Swallow' the seductive centrepiece, evolves rippling drum patterns and plangent harmonics that diffuse like incense; with 'Wave Guidance Allows Three' Belfi locks onto an urgent, metronomic rhythm while Phillips' keys and Nilsen's electronics accumulate a stirring mass of energy, dissipating when Belfi flickers into impossibly dextrous double time.
The Wormhole introduce The Swifter - a new trio featuring Andrea Belfi (drums and percussion), BJNilsen (electronics) and Simon James Phillips (piano) - on three tantalisingly spacious live recordings made in the Grunewald Church, Berlin. The players operate in discrete discourse with the building's unique resonant architecture, using its airy aesthetic qualities and stone construction to deftly accentuate the harmonically rich tones and textures of their delicate gestures. Phillips plays a Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand, which is subsequently processed by Nilsen and punctuated by Belfi's fluid, distinctive style in a feedback system of measured, tempered sonorities. Their first piece 'End of Capstan Bars' starts out creaking and keeling, evoking "the loneliness within a ship's hold" but evolves into a gorgeous and minimal wash of spiritual jazz tones and tranquil bliss also recalling Edward Larry Gordon's 'Celestial Vibrations'; 'Neap Tide' is quieter, space afforded to the fluttering keys and pensile electronics; 'Swallow' the seductive centrepiece, evolves rippling drum patterns and plangent harmonics that diffuse like incense; with 'Wave Guidance Allows Three' Belfi locks onto an urgent, metronomic rhythm while Phillips' keys and Nilsen's electronics accumulate a stirring mass of energy, dissipating when Belfi flickers into impossibly dextrous double time.