![]() ![]() These pieces play with arcs of energy, the push and pull between Lee’s source sounds and Bertucci’s radical instant reimagining. The three pieces for tape and woodwinds are earthier and dirtier, clusters of noise that unfold like short stories. 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 album begins with “Glitter And Gleam,” where the magical sparkling tones of the warped celeste do just that. ![]() 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). 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. The recording began at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, in a shipping container studio during Bertucci’s artist residency in 2019. ![]() 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 duo mix colorful free improv with musique concrete, sculpting experimental instrumental noise into a fascinating and even joyful encounter. ![]() 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. ![]()
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