Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson collaborator Theo Travis is to launch Aelous, an hour-long mediation recorded utilizing a duduk, an Armenian wind instrument typically described as ‘the saddest sounding instrument on the planet’, by Panegyric Information on September 6.
The discharge gained momentum when Travis started experimenting with long-form improvised instrumentals for the instrument, one among which, Historic Soul, Fashionable Occasions, has clocked up in extra of one million performs on YouTube!
Earlier this 12 months Theo labored with producer and former bandmate Steven Wilson, (who has beforehand combined and mastered lots of Theo’s solo recordings) to supply a brand new duduk improvisation in multi-channel audio in addition to stereo, with soundscapes assembled by Wilson from Travis’s alto flute taking part in.
“The result’s a shocking and totally distinctive piece of labor which helps to outline new prospects for so-called “Immersive audio”, with out dropping deal with the pure sound and inherent musicality of the duduk improvisations which have struck such a chord with a large and rising viewers on-line,” say Panegyric of the upcoming launch.
Aeolus is on the market on CD and Blu-ray, the latter of which additionally options Historic Soul, Fashionable Occasions.