Four Fold

The idea was to base an improvising quartet’s music around the original birdsong transcriptions of Olivier Messiaen, before he worked them into his music. A most unusual quartet blending two folk traditions, improvisation from four artists all with some association with ECM Records, and particularly treated sounds of birds in a most unusual mix. Everything was recorded on one long day in Nevessa Studios with engineer Chris Andersen, who has worked often with Crispell and Rothenberg. The group th...