Official release november 5 2020 on All That Dust!
Since 2019 I’ve been exploring the music of American composer Anthony Braxton with a specific focus on his Ghost Trance Music compositions. One of the outcomes of this research was developing a way to explore the full extend of Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music in a solo context, for which I developed an intuitive set-up using loops and live-electronics to have several layers of musical material develop simultaneously and spontaneously.
In january 2020 I spend a week long residency at the GMEA studio in beautiful Albi in the south of France to put this into practice and record three different GTM compositions using the set-up I developed. I’m now incredibly excited to announce the upcoming release of these ‘Ghost Trance Solos’ on the beautifully curated London based label All That Dust! The album will officially drop on november 5 2020 and can be purchased through the All That Dust website or via their bandcamp page.
Being able to spend time immersing myself in Anthony Braxton’s fascinating musical universe has been a great privilege and an incredibly rewarding and challenging experience which has deeply affected my practice as a musician. It is therefore with immense pleasure that I can share this album with the world!
Many thanks to Mark Knoop, Juliet Frasier and Newton Armstrong from All That Dust. Laura Turnbridge for the beautiful liner notes. The people at GMEA in Albi, in particular Didier Aschour for letting me use their studio and Benjamin Maumus for the very skilful recording. And also a special thank you to the Tri-Centric Foundation as well as the Royal Conservatory Antwerp for helping me in making this research and recording project possible. <3 <3 <3