Winds Bells Falls, by Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci

Winds Bells Falls

by Robbie Lee & Lea Bertucci

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1.	Glitter and Gleam 04:30	buy track
2.	Image Mirror 03:35	buy track
3.	Meiosis 01:14	buy track
4.	Bags, Boxes, and Bubbles 08:16	buy track
5.	Division Music 06:22	buy track
6.	Mitosis 02:24	buy track
7.	Twine and Tape 02:42	buy track
8.	Azimuth 11:19	buy track
9.	Somebody Dream 02:06	buy track

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Winds Bells Falls is the meeting between two of New York’s most unconventional musicians, sound artist Lea Bertucci and multi-everything instrumentalist Robbie Lee. The duo mix colorful free improv with musique concrete, sculpting experimental instrumental noise into a fascinating and even joyful encounter. On the album Lee plays medieval and baroque woodwinds, celeste (bell keyboard), and tubular chimes, while Bertucci live-manipulates and mangles his playing, hands inside a reel-to-reel tape machine, transforming and transfiguring in real time.

The recording began at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, in a shipping container studio during Bertucci’s artist residency in 2019. That first session created the pieces using Lee’s woodwinds: the human-sized contrabass recorder, the mouse-sized medieval gemshorn, and wooden traverso flute from the early 1700s. For the other pieces they moved to Lee’s studio, bringing in Lea’s reel-to-reel tape machine and electronics, with Lee on 1920s bell instruments — vintage tubular bells, and the pearloid covered celeste keyboard (usually heard in its twinkling tones in The Nutcracker and many lush midcentury jazz/pop standards).

The album begins with “Glitter And Gleam,” where the magical sparkling tones of the warped celeste do just that. It is an unexpectedly cinematic opening, slowly building to a shimmering and even emotional peak, but that gives no hints abouts where the album goes next. The three pieces for tape and woodwinds are earthier and dirtier, clusters of noise that unfold like short stories. These pieces play with arcs of energy, the push and pull between Lee’s source sounds and Bertucci’s radical instant reimagining. The album is like a dream narrative, sometimes twisted and terrifying but often enchanted.

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released February 18, 2022

Lea Bertucci - tapes and electronics
Robbie Lee - celeste (1, 4, 7, 9), baroque flute (2), gemshorn (5), contrabass recorder (8), orchestra chimes (3, 6)

Recorded by Ethan Primason at Pioneer Works, January 2019 (tracks 2, 5, 8)
and by Robbie Lee at Sine CIty, Brooklyn NY February 2019
Mastered by Elliott Sharp

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Telegraph Harp Brooklyn, New York

Telegraph Harp is a musician-run record label founded to bring visionary, beautiful and strange music to its fans, and to those who don’t yet know that they will be.

discography

Winds Bells Falls

Feb 2022
TOCSIN

Oct 2020
Opalescence

Jun 2018
bloodroot

Mar 2017
Dust Clouds May Exist

Aug 2015
ANGEL II

Jan 2015
3xaWoman

Jun 2014

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