QUAQUA [1982] by TIGER MILK with John Russell

TIGER MILK
Sue Ferrar violin, voice
Annemarie Roelofs violin, trombone, voice
Josefina Cupido drums, voice

John Russell guitar


"There’s over two hours music here, which is quite a lot to take in! Sue Ferrar and Annemarie Roelofs between them navigate an improvisational stream of consciousness that draws gestures from classical, folk and even – I thought at one point – klesmer. Josefina Cupido’s percussion is endlessly responsive, a kind of glue that holds it all together, although it’s equally at home setting the creative agenda. When you listen to John Russell, you can see why he opted for the acoustic rather than electric guitar: the noises you can make with the former are visceral and immediate, whereas the sound of an electric is mediated by the electronics and often noise elements – distortion, for example – are electronically generated. He makes wide-ranging creative use of all the the sound properties of the acoustic, from the noisiest of attacks to clean, lyrical melodic fragments. And his use of harmonics is quite special.
There’s a lot of rich, full-on creativity from all four musicians. Track 8 (‘quartet 2’) is quite something, I thought. And the same can be said of the trios, the last four tracks on the album, with their dense, driving energy and epiphanic, melodic moments, in which Roelofs exchanges trombone for violin for some of the time and joins Ferrar and Russell. QUAQUA [1982] is a very special album, one I’ll be going back to again and again."
Dominic Rivron - International Times
https://internationaltimes.it/aural-astronomy/

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