Instruments that sound like instruments: the debut album from North of North, featuring Anthony Pateras, Scott Tinkler and Erkki Veltheim.
Instruments which sound like instruments! Unbelievable real-time compositions for the unlikely instrumentation of piano, trumpet and violin. This is no random grimprov get together or free jazz blowout, this is a serious engagement with compositional parameters combined with instrumental virtuosity from a working band. Drawing from Xenakian architextures, Carterian set theory, Carnatic music, sharp-edged pointillism and orchestrational symbiosis, North of North throw the listener into a hall of mirrors, refracting musical potential through the sonic maze presented on each of the devastating five cuts recorded here.
This is the sixth release on the ongoing Immediata series, beautifully presented in fuchsia thick recycled cardboard, silver hot stamped text on front, 16 page booklet featuring an extended interview with Scott Tinkler and Erkki Veltheim, and mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose Mastering.
Limited edition of 300 copies.
North of North is an Australian acoustic trio made up of
Anthony Pateras (piano), Scott Tinkler (trumpet) and
Erkki Veltheim (violin).
Drawing from improvisation, Carnatic music, 20th and 21st century compositional strategies, mathematical theories and open forms of jazz, their music is fused together by virtuosic instrumentalism, critical listening and a shared philosophy of musical and physical discipline.
