Rayon concert in the midst of the current show of Lothringer13 Halle:
Almost unplugged, off stage and in aunique setting we celebrate the upcoming
album of Rayon: A Beat of Silence

As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves – arpeggios spiralling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures.

An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flutes, pulling in all directions at once and yet, like a starling murmuration, maintaining shape as one, rippling whole.

Eschewing electronic equipment, the title track sees marimbaphone, piano and vibraphone appearing to mimic a delay pedal, giving the effect of rain falling with odd regiment into a singing bowl.

This melancholy but weirdly uplifting arrangement surfaces throughout the record, punctuated by mossy synth hums and subterranean rustling. Like much of Rayon’s work, “A Beat of Silence” beams across like a soundtrack for some forgotten documentary: dusty archive footage of cities being built and eroded in time-lapse seeming to flicker across the screen.

Sachiko Hara – piano, harmonium
Cico Beck – marimbaphone, bass-drum, percussion, electronics
Karl Ivar Refseth – vibraphone, glockenspiel, bassdrum, percussion
Anton Kaun – objects, electronics
Markus Acher – harmonium, percussion, gongs, electronics

tickets only at the door
13.-€