TURZETS

The latest in a prolific string of solo and collaborative releases by James Rushford, Turzets collects a pair of new
works primarily created and recorded last year while the Australian composer-performer was in residence at La
Becque, an art center on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The side-length piece 'Fallaway Whisk' explores hesitation
in its many forms'reticence of speech, sonic restraint'using live, abstracted translations of text from English to
German against a lush and swelling soundscape. On the flip side, 'Quire' is a work in ten movements influenced
by the composer''''s study of late medieval repertoire on portative organ, weaving the instrument''''s woodsy
interlocking melodies with angelic Yamaha CS-80 synth sweeps and stuttering glitches. The combined effort is
somewhat a departure for Rushford, working in traces of Klaus Schulze, concrete poetry, and ars subtilior into a
precise and ever-unfolding tapestry.