Meillier, Bruno/Dan Warburton - Cho
SKU
00-NM212
In 1986, while Bruno Meillier was playing with the cream of the nascent New York Downtown scene (Ikue Mori, Tom Cora), after a stint with legendary French RIO avant progsters Etron Fou Leloublan), several miles upstate Dan Warburton was studying for PhD at the Eastman School of Music, where he worked with composers as diverse as Steve Reich and Robert Morris. More recently, Bruno has played with Japanese masters Toshi Nakamura and Taku Sugimoto, while Dan's recent playing partners have included Arthur Doyle, John Butcher and Radu Malfatti. When two musicians with such long experience of many diverse styles and movements address the question of free improvisation then, the results are bound to be original: Cho" combines the furious energy of free jazz with the minimalist rigour of Japanese onkyo and Berlin/Vienna-style reductionism to produce one of the most striking albums of improvised music this year." Dan plays violin and piano and Bruno plays electronics.