Eight Essential Releases on Café OTO’s in-house label, Takuroku



Delighted with this review of our new release.

The Telepathic Lockdown Tapes takes the format of MORNINGHAIRWATER and brings it a step further into the abstract. Rather than a project established during lockdown and for Takuroku, The Quiet Club is an Irish duo who have been performing together for over a decade. With the outbreak of the pandemic they found themselves separated from each other but keen to continue working which, for improvisers, presents a problem. Their solution was what they dubbed “telepathic listening;” performing together, at the same time, in their own studios — unable to hear what the other is doing — and combining the recordings as-is to form a single work.

Robbed of the ability to listen to each other and to interact musically in physical space, the resulting recording is a testament to what Takuroku is about and what it can mean to produce art in a time of pandemic and isolation. As sparse textures of found sounds and eerie electronics evolve and intermingle, you can’t help but be convinced that the telepathy has worked, that the two improvisations are truly one; it is impossible for the listener (or for me, at least) to discern which streams of sound come from which collaborator.

Hear an extract and read more here.

https://theroadtosound.com/2020/11/16/eight-essential-releases-on-cafe-otos-in-house-label-takuroku/?fbclid=IwAR1rP1Jjod_Gv8OmyM3XLPzHjjsp9En3UQV1srOPWiiY6P_Kb_-4-lBTmoY

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