'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w  FIM Basel Concert March 2023   Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion).     Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways.    Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations.  http://kamaupatton.com

 Tara Cunningham and Jack Cooper have been making music together for the last two years; most notably as singers and guitarists in the band Modern Nature, but also as an improvising duo with a series of  acclaimed cassettes on UK label Mossy Tapes.
Their improvising duo has slowly morphed from beautifully subdued free music into something approaching songs and in doing so, they became The Sleeves.

Their debut album, released this spring on 12XU captures their free wheeling hive mind and channels it into songs; beautiful melodies, harmony and energy.

Tara… “It feels to me like we are both citing shared references and traditions, whilst floating in our own, single-cell world that is completely genre-less. That grey area is where we seem to thrive. As Jack says, it feels like music that really couldn’t be made by anyone else”

https://mossytapes.bandcamp.com/album/pond-life

https://mossytapes.bandcamp.com/album/when