This is chamber music for those who believe the form is dead. On Linien, trombonist Johannes Bauer joins the European Chaos String Quintet; he adds exponentially to the already multi-valent confluence of sounds, textures, colors, shapes, and tones…
This quintet is literally one of the strangest groupings of string musicians in recent memory – at least on record. Adding a second cello to the string quartet configuration and then playing a wholly improvised music comprised almost completely of short pieces and employing the human voice in those improvisations is different, to say the least…