Keir Cooper & Eleanor Westbrook
Release Date: 30 August 2024
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078014524
Genres: Electronic Avant-garde
Description
'Star Quality' is an attempt to harness the power of soprano voice and all the grandeur of opera and set this in conversation with electric guitar. The compositions use various applications of crude technology (digitally-generated voice, autotune, microsampling, reverb levels etc), to push this duet to extreme sonic places, finding aesthetic and emotional resonance in a language of its own.
The guitar takes a principal role, a distinctive combination of the beautiful and the impossible. Constructed through performance, note-by-note assemblage and detailed editing, the 'guitar-ness' is recognisable yet unique, switching between familiarity and innovation. Alongside this, the soprano's vocal performance is presented in dialogue with an existing culture of limitless sonic manipulation.
Each piece on Star Quality offers a different perspective on the capabilities of guitar and voice, making them rub and contradict and fuse and blend in response to our accelerating times.
Keir Cooper: electric guitar
Eleanor Westbrook: voice
Tracklisting
Army Of Briars
Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall
Theo May's Odd Unit
Charlotte Keeffe
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
Stephen Grew
A Bigger MOUTH
Barry Guy
John Zorn
A.M.E.N
Savina Yannatou, Floros Floridis, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez
Weird Of Mouth
Paul Dunmall & Kevin Figes
Kevin Figes & Julie Tippetts
