Curses and Spirits, by Christoph Gallio+Alistair Zaldua

Curses and Spirits

by Christoph Gallio+Alistair Zaldua

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	1.	Curse Tablets I 01:46
	2.	Curse Tablets II 01:38
	3.	Curse Tablets III 02:29
	4.	Curse Tablets IV 01:37
	5.	Curse Tablets V 02:06
	6.	Curse Tablets VI 01:34
	7.	Happy Sad Nothing 07:50
	8.	Left Lift from Next Door 06:43
	9.	SingSongSing 05:16
	10.	Albert's Bells 00:47
	11.	Davis 04:11
	12.	Abstract 08:27

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Christoph Gallio saxophones
Alistair Zaldua e-violin

This is an album of free improvisation and experimental compositions by Christoph Gallio, Alistair Zaldua, and Lauren Redhead.
Beginning with six short 'Curse Tablets' by the British experimental composer Lauren Redhead, a set of graphic scores that combine ancient historical images with text fragments; she writes: "Curse tablets are petitionary prayer offerings found in Roman (and other) archaeological sites, and can be considered devotional - and sometimes magical - texts and objects."
The Jekyll and Hyde-like character of Christoph Gallio's two-part 'Happy Sad Nothing' is a piece that contrasts a long and meditative cantilena with a shorter and rougher-edged unisons, rather like the repeated chorus of a song.
'Albert's Bells' is a dedication to Albert Ayler, and Alistair Zaldua's 'Davis', is dedicated to the US American activist Michael Ryan Davis (1946-2022).
'Left Lift From Next Door', 'SingSongSing', and 'Abstract' are all duo improvisations, performed with little or no preceding discussion.

credits

released December 1, 2023

recorded 21 September 2022 at Goldsmiths, University of London and mixed by Alex Ward in London
mastered by Michael Brändli at Hardstudios in Switzerland
cover art by Corinne Güdemann "Galopp" 2016, Musée Guimet (detail)
graphic design by Anne Hoffmann

thanks to Anne, Alex, Corinne, Jörg Schwertfeger, Lauren and the Aargauer Kuratorium

Christoph Gallio www.gallio.ch/gallio/
Lauren Redhead laurenredhead.eu
Alistair Zaldua www.alistair-zaldua.de
Corinne Güdemann www.corinneguedemann.ch

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