This electro-acoustic duo isn't just any duo. It has a niche as well as a spine that is a rare combination. Both musicians reduce – if not ignore – old-fashioned instruments: the piano is no longer merely a piano, and the trumpet is not just a trumpet. Translated into avant-garde vocabulary, both Sabine Ercklentz and Andrea Neumann reveal – literally, technically, structurally and formally – one of the eventual futures of both piano and trumpet by laying these instruments bare.
This duet is a story about variations and deviations, about space, relief and detail. Their spontaneous composition ranges from loyalty to sound-search and gentle tunes from a music box. Their sound constantly pulses, rhythm- and melody-wise it is absolutely accessible, whilst for the amateur it is historically instructive. Nonetheless, in its essence this is for the most part ambient music. It is at its utmost ambient when reminiscent of the world of avant-garde dance outcasts, and when it flirts with the archaic rhythmic conventions of pop. Pianism and trumpetism in rare current version: earthed experiment, supremely illuminated improvisation that is apparently thoroughly composed.
