OKKYUNG LEE / JEROME NOETINGER / NADIA RATSIMANDRESY - Two Duos LP Funk Compiled by FLAVIA STOLLMAN

Compiled by FLAVIA STOLLMAN

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

Where the recent trilogy of LP releases – brace

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

OKKYUNG LEE / JEROME NOETINGER / NADIA RATSIMANDRESY - Two Duos LP Funk Compiled by FLAVIA STOLLMANTwo 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