Tim DuRoche/Dan Clucas/John Shaw

Three great improvisers meet to share some beautiful moments

Sult (Norway)
https://youtu.be/cuVInFjC5I8?list=PL_HPASqyjYfJazu56yOyc0rP7FfLptFLJ
https://sult.bandcamp.com/

Sult explores the hidden sounds of acoustic instruments (guitar, contrabass, percussion), magnifying them with microphones so the audience can join them inside their silent cacophony. Subtle harmonics become saws cutting through metal, and creaking wooden bodies become sinking ships. Their expression is primitive and raw, but while their playing embraces chaos, it is matched with discipline and the history of a decade-long mind-meld. The group sounds as one, with the gestalt of simultaneous layers taking primacy over any solo expression. The equality of the voices, however, invites the listener to focus on threads of their own choosing and make their own discoveries.

Their latest album is Harpoon, a collaboration with sound artist Lasse Marhaug. Members of the group have also worked with musicians such as Bill Orcutt, Fred Frith, Maja Ratkje, and Okkyung Lee.

“They combine to create a scrap-heap collage of dry, brittle, abstract sounds, which they control with exquisite patience in slowly developing cycles of tension and release.” — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

Caribay (Oakland)
www.danishtarivero.com

With her voice and electronics, Danishta Rivero (of Voicehandler and Las Sucias) summons the mountain spirit of Caribay, whose laments cause avalanches.