OKKYUNG LEE / JEROME NOETINGER / NADIA RATSIMANDRESY - Two Duos LP Funk and established Chuck Schuldiner's inimitable

and established Chuck Schuldiner's inimitable phrasing and songwriting style as the most singular voice in the burgeoning genre

What started as something of an ill-fated project

the Arkestra performance presented Pharoah Sanders as well as a flautist (who was and remained obscure thereafter) named Harold Murray

pleading with us to avoid concepts of purity and to embrace the glorious

following 2010’s Old Punch Card

OKKYUNG LEE / JEROME NOETINGER / NADIA RATSIMANDRESY - Two Duos LP Funk and established Chuck Schuldiner's inimitableTwo Duos is pressed from cellist Okkyung Lees most recent OTO Residency; the first side a duo with Jrme Noetinger on Revox B77 and the second with Nadia Ratsimandresy on Ondes Martenot. Cut together, the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello, its magnetic reproduction, and the dual controls of the machine invented to expand on its musical qualities. On the A side Noetingers opening tape hiss establishes