nature, Deep Listening, John Fahey, the earth, John Cage, crickets, whales, dolphins, Pauline Oliveros, Durutti Column, memory, consciousness unconsciousness, a circus, La Monte Young, the rain, applause, the wind, spirit, Musique concrete
>>... Sound Collage for Live Performance on CDBaby and will soon be available in all formats on Postdawn Nurseries Music...
<<
Sun Rushing In is mainly a live performance act that began as a collaborative effort between Susan DeLeo and Lauri des Marais. This style of live performance is a project that Lauri has been evolving since she began performing her prerecorded music Stories in Sound live. Now it appears a cross between Cirque du Soleil (loosely and thematically) and Meredith Monk.
In the live performance, this progression of Lauri des Marais' pre-recorded music lingers in the background, silent in sections where Susan performs her songs. Or is mixed with instruments including tibetan singing bowl, soundings, Susan's guitar, ...
~ and haunting recesses of hazy fairy lands with wolves and whales.
Sun Rushing In is a hybrid of Lauri's musique concrête sound design and Susan's acoustic guitar and vocals, creating an atmospheric melancholy and joy. Along with Susan's almost post-rock folk/country stylings on the six-string goes Lauri's progressively textured soundscapes, a haze of quiet low frequency aura projecting the listener into a state of neither/nor Zen.
Lauri integrates a form of slow movement which she terms Movement So Still With Sound (similar in many respects to Butoh dance), fleshing the act out as an avant performance art session. While Sun Rushing In is mainly performance-based, Postdawn Nurseries has the honor of offering the backing tracks to their performance as an exclusive CD, Sound Collage for Live Performance, making for a perfect listen for homesick or distant memory moods.
(As producer of this album, Lauri des Marais uses many of the first recordings of Susan's music recorded on Tascam 4-track recorder. This recording misses the live elements.)
Good to finally see ya here lable mate! We've been listing to your stuff ever since we first came across you on PostDawn. We really would love to see you live or share a stage someday. Til then..Stay Strange! Tak (keyboardist of Strangefire)
