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Saint Catherine Torment - 19CD (2005)

by Masayo Asahara

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"A 64 minute excursion into the possibilities of prepared piano and electronics generated from a table top violin. And, as it turns out, the possibilities seem near endless. Within these somewhat limited parameters, manages to conjure densely gripping worlds of sound. We encounter muffled gamelan, ghostly glitch, satellite communications, wonky zithers, nursery rhyme balafon, phased robot mumblings, high frequency twitter and swish, precision laser scalpels slicing the skull, rickety creaks and drips below deck, the moist squelching of pulsating brain tissue and sighing, infinitesimal sub-atomic expanses. Exhausting, mind-blowing fun."- Daniel Spicer, Jazzwise

Following the runaway success of her re-released 1974 album "Saint Agnes Fountain", we're pleased and proud to present a new full length piece by this radical and farsighted composer. This is a 60 minute work which Masayo has created from source material played by Martin and Philip. Archer's atmospheric and varied improvisation has been orchestrated by Masayo with piano samples which are by turns aggressively insistent and delicately shaded. Shades of Stockhausen and Galina Ustvolskaya to our ears, but with that distinctive Asahara minimalist touch. The 60 minute span seems to pass in a quarter of the time.

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released March 2, 2021

Masayo Asahara - composer, edit
Martin Archer - violectronic
Philip Thomas - prepared piano

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Discus Music was founded in 1994 by Martin Archer. The label releases leftfield rock music, free jazz, extended songform, electronics, improvised music, and other sounds which defy categorisation.

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