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The 4, the 8, the 10

by Inclusion Principle

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The electronics / woodwind duo celebrates its 15th year of existence with a new album, the first for 5 years. Material developed for concerts during the period since the group’s previous CD release feed into this new set of studio recordings. Transformed field recordings, electroacoustic abstraction and incisive beats are sculpted carefully to give this high contrast music a powerful drive.

This new album adds some deep grooves to the characteristic minimalist abstraction of the group, and cutting through the resulting electronic soundscape, both Perez and Archer play their front line horns with their characteristic angular melodic lines.

The CD begins with a series of rhythm driven pieces before concluding with an extended suite Ornament Of Light, which explores the more spacious side of the duo as heard in live performance, and whenever the players explore the resonant space in which the music is played.

reviews:

I really enjoyed the contrast between the tranquil beats, bird call and other ‘found sounds’ and atmospheric shimmering synths with eruptions of motile sax and also the suspenseful quality of the music. ‘The 4, The 8, The 10’ is an accomplished, meditative listening experience. – Phil Jackson, ACID DRAGON

The opening three minutes is a mesmeriser. Two horns perfectly attuned to each other in every sense. So much so it took me a little while to get beyond those first three minutes; constantly switching back to the beginning before being willing to give them up. They’re a slow, sensuous prelude and delivered like a balancing act. – Steve Day

That a variety of moods are conjured so effectively speaks volumes about how both artists are in sync with their objectives, so clearly vested in the realization of their ideas, so highly attuned to their birthing of new musics that to accompany them on their magical mystery tour is an experience not soon forgotten. – Darren Bergstein, DMG

Each musician finds ways to sculpt sounds that become incorporated into your own thoughts and imaginings, pulling you into their soundscapes in ways that will you to become an active participant; although the pieces have elements which have an ‘ambient’ quality that could wash over you, they take pains to introduce unexpected, startling, disturbing changes that jolt you back to attentiveness. You’d expect really good art to be provocative and to stimulate a response – and this set certainly does that.

Having played together for the best part of a decade, Archer and Perez have a well-developed knack for finding mutually intriguing sounds to introduce their creations. Often the introductions, while spontaneous, have the sense of a conversation which, while it might combine different points of view, is being conducted between two friends. – Chris Baber, Jazzviews

credits

released June 1, 2021

Martin Archer - sopranino, soprano & baritone saxophones, clarinet, flute, recorder, chimes, organ, electric piano, synths and software instruments.

Hervé Perez - field recordings, sound design, beats and keys programming, electronics, alto and soprano saxophones, shakuhachi.

Produced, mixed and mastered at nexTTime studios 2021

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Inclusion Principle Sheffield, UK

Inclusion Principle operates between electronics, jazz, EA and improvisation.

We decided to base the name on a theory of physicist Wolfgang Pauli. We found a correlation in that we both worked with a digital scalpel on fields of microsounds; a science which took us closer to the chemistry of natural sounds, harmonic DNA sequences and rhythmical fragments quantum-jumping from cell to cell. ... more

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