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HERESY OF THE FREE SPIRIT – A Prayer For Light
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HERESY OF THE FREE SPIRIT

A Prayer For Light

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Heresy of the Free Spirit is a trio comprised of Dutch lute player, Jozef Van Wissem and Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalists, Che Chen (of True Primes) on violin, bowed rawap, bass recorder, percussion and tape machines, and Robbie Lee (of Howling Hex, Baby Dee) on portative organ, bass recorder, guitar, banjo and electronics. Using early European as well as non-western instruments and electronics, the trio plays arrangements of Van Wissem’s lute compositions as well as free improvisations that draw on early music, folk traditions, minimalism and noise. Fully utilizing the extended techniques, unique textures and tuning possibilities of their unusual instruments, the trio use both repetition and silence as ways of entering trance-like states. Their record, A Prayer for Light is a radical re-imagining of early European and American primitive music in which the sources are stretched and re-purposed to accommodate free improvisation, extended, repetitive song forms, and tape manipulations.

Limited edition, cover silk screen printed silver on black.

Details
Cat. number: INC 011
Year: 2011

Format

LTD 300

Release notes

Heresy Of The Free spirit are Che Chen, Robbie Lee and Jozef Van Wissem. Recorded at Rare Book Room Studios in Brooklyn, New York. Limited edition of only 300 copies, silk screen printed silver on black cover. Art by Che Chen.

Tracklist
1Tell Us About The End
2A Prayer For Light
3He Is In Every Stone
4The Soul's True Country
5Before All Time
6All That Nature Desires
7Eternal Act
8Tell Us About The End (Reprise)
Credits
Che Chen
Artwork