Turzets

The latest in a prolific string of solo and collaborative releases by James Rushford, Turzets collects a pair of new works primarily created and recorded last year while the Australian composer-performer was in residence at La Becque, an art center on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The side-length piece 'Fallaway Whisk' explores hesitation in its many forms?reticence of speech, sonic restraint?using live, abstracted translations of text from English to German against a lush and swelling soundscape. On the flip side, 'Quire' is a work in ten movements influenced by the composer?s study of late medieval repertoire on portative organ, weaving the instrument?s woodsy interlocking melodies with angelic Yamaha CS-80 synth sweeps and stuttering glitches. The combined effort is somewhat a departure for Rushford, working in traces of Klaus Schulze, concrete poetry, and ars subtilior into a precise and ever-unfolding tapestry.

Tracks

1~1~Fallaway Whisk
1~2~Quire I
1~3~Quire Ii
1~4~Quire Iii
1~5~Quire Iv
1~6~Quire V
1~7~Quire Vi
1~8~Quire Vii
1~9~Quire Viii
1~10~Quire Ix
1~11~Quire X

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Rushford, James
Release Date: 05 April 2024
Genre: Classical Music
Label: BLANK FORMS EDITIONS
Distributor: Rocket Group