Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson collaborator Theo Travis is to unencumber Aelous, an hour-long mediation recorded the use of a duduk, an Armenian wind tool every so often described as ‘the saddest sounding tool on the planet’, via Panegyric Data on September 6.
The discharge received momentum when Travis started experimenting with long-form improvised instrumentals for the tool, one in every of which, Historic Soul, Fashionable Instances, has clocked up in far more than one million performs on YouTube!
Previous this 12 months Theo labored with manufacturer and previous bandmate Steven Wilson, (who has in the past blended and mastered lots of Theo’s solo recordings) to provide a brand new duduk improvisation in multi-channel audio in addition to stereo, with soundscapes assembled by way of Wilson from Travis’s alto flute taking part in.
“The result’s a surprising and completely distinctive piece of labor which is helping to outline new chances for so-called “Immersive audio”, with out shedding focal point at the natural sound and inherent musicality of the duduk improvisations that have struck this sort of chord with a large and rising target audience on-line,” say Panegyric of the impending unencumber.
Aeolus is to be had on CD and Blu-ray, the latter of which additionally options Historic Soul, Fashionable Instances.
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