Viv Corringham has performed and recorded internationally since the early ’80s. She explores the place where improvisation and electronics can meet Eastern Mediterranean music. Collaborators include Lol Coxhill, Lawrence Casserley, Martin Tetreault, Eddie Prevost and many others. She is based in London where she leads the group SHIMAL who reinterpret traditional Turkic music in the light of contemporary urban experience.
Peter Cusack has long been fascinated by wildlife and enviromental sounds, and his pieces currently explore that rich area where musical abstraction and identifiable sound can freely interact. Very active in elctroacoustic and improvised musics he tours and broadcasts regulary at home and abroad. Musical collaborators include Clive Bell, Nick Collins, Alteration, Chris Cutler and Max Eastley.
OPERET includs seven beautiful songs. All of them have universal human emotions and strong melodies. They are heavely arranged, not “authentic” and have layers of texture-sounds of London and the enviroment, snatches of the original song, live instruments. It’s not a detached, post-modernist deconstruction ! It’s trying to take people on a journey where what we hear right here and now is as valid as the song…
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