The Garden of Paradise, by Agathe Max & Natalia Beylis

The Garden of Paradise

by Agathe Max & Natalia Beylis

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1.	She Should Be Queen of all of the Flowers 05:00	buy track
2.	They Danced with Shawls Which Were Woven of Mist and Moonshine 03:40	buy track
3.	The Garden of Paradise 22:35	buy track
4.	She Took Her Girdle and Bound One End of it Round the Butterfly 02:12	buy track
5.	There Sat the Dog With Eyes As Big As Teacups 02:51	buy track

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Agathe Max (from Lyons, currently based in London) mostly performs as a solo violinist, and has also worked with Rhys Chatham, Carla Bozulich, Alexander Tucker and Melt-Banana.
Kiev-born, Baltimore-raised, Leitrim-based Natalia Beylis plays in Woven Skull and Divil A’ Bit, with solo work involving tape manipulation, field recordings and keyboard improvisations.
A chance crossing of paths in London led to an Irish tour and the recording of these duo improvisations at Beylis's home, inspired by and titled after Harry Clarke's illustrations for Hans Christian Anderson's fairytales.
The lengthy title track meanders with intent across time, space and both sides of the tape. Along the way it hints at raga and various European traditional styles, with Max's labyrinthine looping over the dense thickets conjured up by Beylis's mandola.
This is bookended by a pair of shorter pentatonic piano-led tracks, and a more abstract opener and closer.
Heady, timeless, vivid and deeply psychedelic.
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released on Fort Evil Fruit (FEF 80) on July 11, 2019

Agathe: violin
Natalia: cümbüş, mandola, piano

Recorded at home in Leitrim, Feb 2018

"Emotionally it’s pure and simple and honest; musically it’s intense with ideas, never resorting to instrumental histrionics or impulsive gyrations; and sonically it’s as straightforward as you could hope. The result lends a massive, intoxicating, raga-esque power to this series of duets, in particular on the 22-minute title track spilling over onto the second side of the tape. Named after a book of illustrations completed by Irish artist Harry Clarke for Hans Christian Anderson’s eponymous The Garden Of Paradise, the improvised epic violin-and-mandola duet screeches and squeals and swells and squalls, melting between passages of heavenly plucks and cosmic scrapes. Delay pedals turn acoustic murmurs into a spiralling psychedelic gatherings of spirits." - Tristan Bath, The Quitus

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released August 20, 2019

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