Description

Salenta and Topu met serendipitously in the summer of 2019 at a mutual friend’s apartment in Bedstuy. They talked about jamming as they left the small gathering; and months later, they ended up in Salenta’s friend’s recording studio in Bushwick. The studio had amazing gear and was perfectly treated. Ironically, they could not get the software to work so they ended up recording everything acoustically on an old recorder.

Months later Salenta adopted an old beautiful spinet piano which had not been tuned in over 20 years. Although the piano was out of tune to western standards, it still had a very unique vibration and tune of its own. Outside of the first recordings in Bushwick, Topu and Salenta continued these jam sessions at Salenta’s apartment. Because of the odd tune of the piano, Topu tuned his cello down to match the intonation of the piano’s vibration. Together, Topu and Salenta improvised countless compositions, fifteen of which are included in this album.

A piano and cello draw ostinato patterns in the dusty air of an old living room; vignettes influenced by classical music—especially Erik Satie—and the long history of urban jazz. The means used by Salenta + Topu are reduced to a minimum.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Cliff By The Sea03:25
  • 2.Impression, Sunrise05:15
  • 3.Jour de Pluie01:09
  • 4.Come Sunday01:22
  • 5.Contrasting Sounds03:37
  • 6.Third Stream01:44
  • 7.Universe 197101:13
  • 8.Electronic Superhighway03:41

B

  • 1.Pyramids and Desert01:53
  • 2.Woman Reading a Letter01:38
  • 3.From Paradise By Night05:09
  • 4.Light Coming On The Plains02:12
  • 5.Memory, The Heart04:16
  • 6.Show Me As I Want To Be Seen02:39
  • 7.WIP05:05

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