Oct. 2024
Duo
Daniel Studer & Sylvain Monchocé
„…Monchocé and Studer set up a flexible discourse working on the strings,
Audios
stylistically elusive, but endowed with an enviable communicative capacity. Both musicians play on instruments with a long strings and both use similar extended preparations/techniques (arco, pizzicato, sticks, splited strings, etc.). This ensures a coherence in the basic structure of the sound.
This duo is remarkable! It is truly difficult to find such a beautiful realization of intent around, it is an epiphany of improvised dialogue.“
Ettore Garzia, Percorsi musicali
…einfallsreich, voller Spiellust und witziger Klang¬über¬raschungen. Ein Hörvergnügen…
Cécile Olshausen, Kulturtipp
…certainly a unique but wonderfully complementary pairing that shuns the classical European and Korean idioms in pursuit of non-traditional, denationalized, and particularly fertile common ground.
Nick Ostrum, The Free Jazz Collective
…per un verso affondano carnalmente nella materia, nei legni e nelle corde, perlustrati in maniera millimetrica, per un altro si offrono magicamente evanescenti e sfumate, danzanti creature incorporee…
Piercarlo Poggio, Blow Up
Sylvain Monchocé - gayageum
Daniel Studer - double bass
All compositions by Sylvain Monchocé (SACEM) and Daniel Studer (SUISA)
Recorded February 1 and 2, 2024 in Basel by Christian Moser
Mixed and masted by Alex Huber
Cover Art by Markus Dorninger & Stefan Schönegg
Release the 18/10/2024 on Impakt Records