AMM

Aura is a concert by AMM recorded at the Sibelius Museum concert hall in Turku, Finland, on 8 October 2016, with Eddie Prévost on percussion and John Tilbury on piano and harpsichord. The music is a single improvisation of a little over an hour. AMM was formed in London in 1965 by Prévost, Keith Rowe and Lou Gare, and Tilbury joined around 1980. After Rowe left in 2004, pianist and percussionist went on as AMM in duo form. Rowe came back in 2015, but the Turku concert was played by the two of them alone.

The evening was organised locally by four people, with help from the museum, and recorded by Jaakko Tolvi, with final editing and mastering by Rupert Clervaux. The label text describes an intimate, meditative hour of extended improvisation, built on Prévost's textural approach to percussion and on Tilbury's subtle, slowly evolving chords, heard in a hall with a rich acoustic. On the single track Tilbury is credited with both piano and harpsichord.

Released by Matchless Recordings in 2024 on CD (MRCD 116), with booklet essays by Niko-Matti Ahti, who was among the concert's organisers (AMM in Turku), and Taneli Viitahuhta (Returning to the River).