2010 release ** "The Polish MonotypeRec has become the breeding ground for applied music. Recently, one interesting experimental release after another has been rolling off the press. Some elusive and incomprehensibly intriguing and others within the slightly more common frameworks. The first category includes the new collaboration between Olga Magieres and Tetsuo Furudate. Olga Magieres was born in Russia in 1955, but has lived in Denmark since 1971. Here she became a classically trained pianist, but has focused on improvisations rather than classical work for quite some time. She collaborates with various artists, including Tetsuo Furudate and Leif Elggren. The Japanese Tetsuo Furudate, born in 1959, initially started as a video artist before successfully turning to electronics. He has already released some 15 impressive releases, sometimes in collaboration with Zbigniew Karkowski, Kasper Toeplitz and Leif Elggren.
What exactly the two artists want to achieve on Introduction Of “Blue Of Noon” is actually completely unclear. It seems more like a bundle of what they have all done together. That does not make it any less interesting, let me say that first, but it does fan out quite a bit. The CD opens with a short piece full of piano improvisations, dark sounds from the laptop and various samples of organic and natural sounds. This is followed by a long piece of spoken word, in which the text from “Le Blue Due Ciel” by Georges Bataille is recited by Christopher Charles. Olga and Tetsuo provide this with airy music, which makes these 23 minutes pass by like a mysterious film. After this, the two perform 2 more pieces in which compositions by Chopin, Bach, Warren and Gershwin are performed in an improvisatory manner. These often start in a beautiful way with a classically played part after which the electronics are let loose. With breathtaking beauty they then drag you along in a chillingly biologizing sound. All in all, it has become a pleasantly strange listening experience from two top-notch improvisation artists."