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	1.	mark making 00:48
	2.	nocturnal gesture 05:20
	3.	canopy 03:59
	4.	yellow breeze 03:07
	5.	beneath the blows 01:35
	6.	spaces in red 01:23
	7.	orders of magnitude 05:15
	8.	landing 01:52
	9.	displaced observer 03:35

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Eerie, elemental piano and modular synth abstractions.

'both | and' documents the early days of Ola and Claude Aldous’ journey as an improvising duo, presented here as the pairing of piano and modular synthesizer.

Later performances have found Ola additionally stretching out into wordless vocals, bowed banjo, no-input mixing board, and electronics, but these recordings capture an elemental quality of their collaboration, present in all of their later works.

In addition to their sound practice they publish Deft Esoterica, a zine dedicated to experimental music and sound art.

"...odd pacing...bubbling...freaking....somewhat melancholic"

Full review here:
www.vitalweekly.net/1221.html

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released January 15, 2020

Music by Claude & Ola
Recorded by Joel Hurd, Summer 2017
Art by Ola Aldous
Layout by Ross Scott-Buccleuch

Deft Esoterica zine can be found here:
deftesoterica.bandcamp.com

Contact:
deftesoterica@gmail.com

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A UK tape label specialising in collaborative works of all things sound-art, dada, abstract, conceptual, sinister, delirious, melancholy, unclassifiable, bewildering, dislocating etc... from duos and upwards.

Release schedule full until Summer 2025.

Currently closed for submissions until further notice. ... more

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