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Isla Decepci​ó​n

by Sverdrup Balance

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Neptune Bellows 09:09
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Fumarole Bay 06:06
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Sewing-Machine Needles Islands 01:47
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Cathedral Crags 08:22
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Pendulum Cove 05:24
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Ice Cliffs from Baily Head to Macaroni Point 11:59
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Stonethrow Ridge 01:51
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Telefon Bay 04:24
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Mount Oritorco 09:16
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about

SVERDRUP BALANCE is Lawrence CASSERLEY/ Yoko MIURA / Jean Michel VAN SCHOUWBURG.
The music of Sverdrup Balance is a merging of streams and currents as they flow down mountains, through gorges, valleys and estuaries, across oceans, around and between islands and beneath the surface of the seas, as they interact with the winds that flow above and across the surface.

Three powerful streams - Yoko Miura’s piano, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg’s voice and Lawrence Casserley’s Signal Processing Instrument merge into a tremendous tumbling torrent that tears through the maelstrom. Each player has a unique musical personality that is clearly stated, but also submerged into our collaboration. The unity and the diversity are the essence of our interaction. The music is in constant flux, both individually and collectively, absorbing each others’ power and sensitivity - creating new flows on many levels.

The balance of all these flows lies between the freedom of the players and the undertow of the rules of engagement. We are all soloists, all accompanists and all parts of the coalescent continuum that enfolds our compound cooperation.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, flowing at 125 Sverdrups, is the largest oceanic current, flowing past, around and through the archipelagos and islands. The currents divert, interweave, dive from the surface to the depths and rise again unpredictably, just as in our performance we constantly vary and interweave our relationships with each other and with the group.

Volcanoes, ridges, crags and ice cliffs tower above the bays and islands, and the ever pervasive current. In the centre, between Neptune’s Bellows and Mount Uritorco we catch glimpses of the calm of the caldera; a momentary respite from the turbulent streams. This is Isla Decepción.
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Yoko Miura's personnal comment :
I think it’s like we’re traveling on parallel paths to a destination.
We communicate with each other by feeling and instinct.
Personally, I take in sounds not as musical notes or chords, just as energy or vibration.
I put several tones into our musical field and watch the chemical reaction.
It’s a kind of adventure.
I always try to open a window so that we can reach a new world.

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released October 3, 2019

ISLA DECEPCIÒN by SVERDRUP BALANCE
Lawrence Casserley signal processing instrument, Yoko Miura, piano, melodeon, toy piano and Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, voice.
Recorded by Michel Rutsaert on the 26 october 2018 in Brussels in live concert at Cellule 133A (tracks 1 & 9) and in studio at Pianos Maene (tracks 2 to 8), Brussels.

1 Neptune’s Bellows 9:28
2 Fumarole Bay 6:06
3 Sewing-Machine Needles Islands 1:45
4 Cathedral Crags 8:21
5 Pendulum Cove 6:25
6 Ice Cliffs from Baily Head to Macaroni Point 12:00
7 Stonethrow Ridge 1:52
8 Telefon Bay 4:25
9 Mount Uritorco 9:15

Sverdrup Balance : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdrup_balance

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Jean - Michel Van Schouwburg Braine L'Alleud, Belgium

Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg Born 1955. Belgium. Self-taught vocal improviser. Invented his own Phonoetry and vocal techninques, mouthroat cheekteethlipstong. Has performed and recorded with Jean Demey & Kris Vanderstraeten (Sureau), John Russell, Lawrence Casserley (MouthWind), Sabu Toyozumi, Marcello Magliocchi & Matthias Boss, Adam Bohman Zsolt Sörès,Oli Mayne,Yoko Miura, Paul Dunmall Phil Gibbs ... more

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