OKKYUNG LEE / JEROME NOETINGER / NADIA RATSIMANDRESY - Two Duos LP Funk What started as something of

What started as something of an ill-fated project

“Through the Threshold” recalls the fiddle tune “Sugar in the Gourd” amongst sifting waves of legato bowings and trickles of accented percussive fiddle

the Arkestra performance presented Pharoah Sanders as well as a flautist (who was and remained obscure thereafter) named Harold Murray

stripping away some of the distortion mask to reveal the naked pop forms as never before

OKKYUNG LEE / JEROME NOETINGER / NADIA RATSIMANDRESY - Two Duos LP Funk What started as something ofTwo Duos is pressed from cellist Okkyung Lees most recent OTO Residency; the first side a duo with Jrme Noetinger on Revox B77 and the second with Nadia Ratsimandresy on Ondes Martenot. Cut together, the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello, its magnetic reproduction, and the dual controls of the machine invented to expand on its musical qualities. On the A side Noetingers opening tape hiss establishes