Hemmersham/ Glennie/ Stevens - Core Tet ProjectThis premiere recording of master percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie's new international ensemble offers a programme of fourteen improvised pieces that push the boundaries of spontaneous music making. The group brings together musical traditions from four varied cultures (Scotland, Serbia, the United States and Denmark) but with a common goal: to create spontaneous music of great beauty and power which utilizes the basic formal elements of musical

Live was mostly recorded on November 1st

great Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen's words was as deep as his grooves

A few months later

was inspired by recent scientific work into the rich communication and subterranean connectivity between trees - evoked also in Richard Power's related novel The Overstory

and the staunchly resonant hope displayed in "Last Days"

xylophone and vibraphone

It features fiery brass charts

Ted Kotcheff Star Christopher Meloni

When he plays his bassoon

Das Rheingold itself is present by implication in the cycle of Wesendonck-Lieder which Wagner composed on the shore of Lake Zurich

The tracks are full of Gordon's unique and innovative improvisations supported by his returning line-up

and musique concrète experiments feed into one another to grow lush new forms