From Carl Craig’s classical excursions to Lena Willikens’s Dusseldorf eclecticism and Juju and Jordash’s ballsy improv: it’s the electronic playlist
Premiering exclusively on the Guardian is a live improvisation between disgustingly handsome pianist Francesco Tristano and Detroit techno master Carl Craig. Recorded for a Boiler Room session in Germany sponsored by Ballatine’s whisky (whose obnoxiously inappropriate imagery you might notice throughout) it comes as part of their Stay True Journeys series. Techno is naturally po-faced, so can seem awfully haughty when it actually tries to be serious and edge its way into the conservatoire. But whether its Villalobos and Loderbauer mining the ECM archives, or Craig and Moritz Von Oswald turning Ravel into dub techno, the worlds of classical music and techno can potentially dovetail beautifully. So it (mostly) proves here as Craig sends acid arpeggios on skewed axes, before Tristano returns with full-blooded house chords. Piano sounds are usually approximated in dance music, often beautifully and strangely, but it’s satisfying to hear the grand piano put to use in the unbecoming business of a fist-pumping anthem. You see can more from the same Boiler Room series here and here.
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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian
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