Serries / Verhoeven / Webster - Aesthetics (May 2021 Fort Evil Fruit)

This trio made up half of the band Tonus on the deliberate, glacial and minimal Monograph 50 (released on FEF last year). Aesthetics is a real contrast, capturing one day of studio and live recordings from Dirk Serries, Martina Verhoeven and Colin Webster, on acoustic guitar, cello and alto sax respectively. Though the dynamics ebb and flow, the players inexorably gravitate towards wrenching abrasive textures from their instruments in rapid pointillist flurries.

1. I 07:54

2. II 08:23

3. III 07:29

4. IV 29:43

Dirk Serries : acoustic guitar

Martina Verhoeven : cello

Colin Webster : alto sax

I-III : performed, recorded, mixed at the Sunny Side Inc.

Studio, Anderlecht (Belgium) on December 15th 2018.

IV : live in concert at Jurgen Moortgat’s living room

concert series (Mechelen, Belgium) on December 15th

2018. Recorded and mixed by Dirk Serries.

Mastered at the Sunny Side Inc. Studio, Anderlecht (Belgium).

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Yama Yuki / Darisbo / Crise Vitória - Gibon (2021 Fort Evil Fruit)

Yama Yuki is a Japanese composer now based in São Paulo. In 2020, he released the album “Panelaço” on Cafe OTO's Takuroku label, which was inspired by the noise of South American political protests. The album “Gibon” also reflects his current home, taking as source material the music of Brazilian improviser Guilherme Darisbo (who is active in the Latin American improvisation scene and hosts the experimental music label Antena.art.br),including noise music produced under the alias Crise Vitória. From this, Yama crafts airy electroacoustic landscapes of richly textured drone punctuated by wayward electronic squalls and looped guitar.

"The idea for this album came when I listened to the recordings of improvisation by Guilherme Darisbo and Crise Vitória. These recordings inspired me to weave new compositions from them. The fast, minimal, raw and sometimes gentle sound of Guilherme Darisbo / Crise Vitória’s improvisation made me think of the paintings of Sengai Gibon, who is a 18-19th century Japanese zen painter. For me, Sengai Gibon’s paintings share various similarities with Darisbo’s improvisation, because of the above mentioned characteristics. Listening to Darisbo’s improvisation, I chose certain moments of the recording, looping them, adding effects and subtle layer sounds, and finally editing them in accordance with the aesthetics I sensed in the paintings of Sengai Gibon." - Yama Yuki

1. Lotus Pond 01:59

2. Enso 05:54

3. Meditating Frog 04:24

4. Chanoyu 03:45

5. Tiger Poem 02:56

6. Hakozaki 03:23

Original improvisation by Guilherme Darisbo and Crise Vitória.

Edit and composition by Yama Yuki

Mastered at Casa Metaesquema

Cover art by Evan Lindorff-Ellery

1,2,6 (Yama Yuki + Guilherme Darisbo)

3,4 (Yama Yuki + Guilherme Darisbo + Crise Vitória)

5 (Yama Yuki + Crise Vitória)

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