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Rocket Recordings

Kuro 'Kuro'

£11.99

Rocket Recordings

Kuro 'Kuro'

£11.99

Kuro take their name from the Japanese word for black', and their debut release for Rocket Recordings marks an experimental union between two diversely storied yet inherently like-minded musicians.

Agathe Max, who hails originally from Lyon, is a classically-trained violinist with a varied back catalogue of studio and live work - running the gamut from spectral ambience to stately soundscapes and adept at summoning dreamstates and drama alike, her emotive and engaging work has found admirers at a number of UK festivals such as Supersonic and Raw Power.

The Bristol-based Gareth Turner, meanwhile, maintains a busy schedule performing and recording with Rocket Recordings trio Anthroprophh (alongside The Heads guitarist Paul Allen) bass/drums duo Big Naturals, and his solo double-bass project Salope, as well as working as a touring tech for Melvins on their trips to Europe.

Yet despite both of these artists'multi-faceted artistic lives, their partnership was both a natural progression and reflective of an intuitive chemistry. The result of their initial spark is perhaps both artists'most coherent and captivating work to date.

'At times her work approaches the supersonic escape velocity of Tony Conrad; elsewhere, she introduces delicate repeating threads, then slowly weaves them into a fabric of vast, billowing sound more reminiscent of Steve Reich' Boomkat

'Bridges the gaps between minimalism, post-classicism, the avant garde, krautrock, and plain old-fashioned pop' Supersonic Festival 'Beautifully melodic moments or massed strings set against itself to create a gently lush if unsettled feeling' All Music

Tracklisting:
1. Arashi
2. The Hierophant
3. Ishtar
4. Incantaion In C
5. Shanghai'd
6. Song for the Mysticeti