David Toop, Ecka Mordecai, Christian Kobi

*300 copies limited edition*

Sponge mites swarm a black map / Overrun then cut by mayflies / Void / switch /part to 
Moth wings beating air incised / a graver / lined and block / partial
to upper frequencies / Scordatura / its flowers / Vespertine / delirious
A night shade / falling into / cardiac arrhythmia / Sharp stop / intaglio
Stabbed by silence / The ink was invisible / Dust sprinkled by a pollinator heard as low
ground hum / Bare scented wave / faint as rumour
Bird beak incision / Hole puncher with cautious tread
Aeolian spirits / Breath pressed through a reedy chisel
We collected mushrooms in the forest / like children
Black cap for a funeral bell
Friction of hair a motion meets resistance pushes down
Leaf stress and still / slashed shut to return / a rider moving fast
Dust rising as a screen / choked up
Time slows a sludge of stop / examination of parts in
thin whiskers tips softer than a slow nocturnal
Mammal fur / intimate as spit
And in the groaning / shredded history scraped apart
to fibres / fragile barely standing upright as if poised to stop
Its nervous disposition shivers in the wind / sings
concentrate to be a touch a stroke a scratch / the burden lightly
held as breath exhaust and sleep (David Toop)

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British musician David Toop (born in 1949), who has been carrying out important activities as a performer and writer since the 1970s, is a leading figure on the British experimental/improvised music scene. London-based cellist Ecka Mordecai released her first solo album, "Promise & Illusion" (Otoroku), in 2022. Christian Kobi, who lives in Spiegel, near Bern (Switzerland), is a sax player active on the experimental/improvised music scene. Kobi has carried out a number of tours in Japan, and visited the country in 2023 in a trio with Radu Malfatti and Klaus Filip.

On April 23, 2024, the trio of David Toop, Ecka Mordecai, and Christian Kobi appeared at Cafe OTO in London. This CD documents a performance (31 minutes 30 seconds) from that concert. Mordecai played cello, and Kobi, soprano and tenor sax, while Toop produced sound using a variety of objects. Throughout the performance, the disparate sounds of the three musicians intertwine in an organic way, resulting in improvised music of outstanding quality.