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Another favorite of 2023, NY-based artists Salenta and Topu debut on Belgian label Futura Resistenza. The pair 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, seventeen which are included in this album.
Recommended – Full Listen
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A1 Cliff By The Sea
A2 Impression, Sunrise
A3 Jour de Pluie
A4 Come Sunday
A5 Contrasting Sounds
A6 Third Stream
A7 Universe 1971
A8 Electronic Superhighway
B1 Pyramids and Desert
B2 Woman Reading a Letter
B3 From Paradise By Night
B4 Light Coming On The Plains
B5 Memory, The Heart
B6 Show Me As I Want To Be Seen
B7 WIP
Artwork By – Nadia Westcott
Cello, Mixed By, Written By, Performer – Topu Lyo
Design – Tori Huang
Layout – Koos Siep
Mastered By – Nolan Thies
Photography By – Guarionex Rodriguez Jr. & Tori Huang
Piano, Mixed By, Written By, Performer – Salenta Baisden
Remastered By – Felix-Florian Tödtloff