Ffansion | Fancies, voted one of the year’s best albums by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, documents the rare rapport between Welsh violinist Angharad Davies and Berlin-based pianist Tisha Mukarji. Realized as part of Another Timbre’s “Violin +1” series, the album paints a spacious landscape of improvised textures, blending prepared piano with close-miked virtuosic violin in St Catherine’s Church, London. Davies and Mukarji relinquish self-consciousness and allow the instruments to propose the music's direction: the duo’s spontaneous clarity and focus lend each piece its distinct character​.

Over seven tracks, the pair inhabits a zone where every harmonic - audible or implicit - counts equally. Fluttering shades of elongation meet sparse chordal designs, with periods of insistent arco and fragments dissolving into silence. Their approach avoids ritualism; instead, they channel unattached forces, navigating episodes of conscious restraint and meditative unrest. The listener is rewarded not with hidden meanings but with direct, textural engagement - the music remains grounded in immediate sound, yet constantly skirts the edge of self-erasure. “Ffansi iv,” for instance, unravels the violin’s depths in long sustained notes, while the prepared piano punctuates the space with unexpected color.

Davies and Mukarji’s partnership is shaped by attentive listening and radical openness. The duo acts as a sonic conduit, disentangling musical and physical gestures to yield new harmonies and forms. Ffansion | Fancies stands as a testament to this process: chamber improvisation at its most intuitive, balancing fragile emergence and rich decay, as each sound finds its meaning in the fullness and imperfection of the present moment.