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Charlotte Hug / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions
ByThe great invention of this album's music is not so much technical innovation, or extending the sound palette of each of the instruments. Rather, violist/singer Charlotte Hug and cellist

Fred Lonberg-Holm
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It is sometimes impossible to separate the sensibilities of the two musicians, despite the fact they come from two opposing sound spectrums and collide to make a third. Each has developed a unique grammatical approach to the language of their instruments. Yet both Hug and Lonberg-Holm succeed in expanding the literature of improvised music, making this very thing possible because they refuse to be cowed down by conventional tonal spatulas. Thus the cello becomes the doppelganger of the viola, as it squeals delightfully, goading the viola to moan with terrible human pain, almost as if the anatomies of the two instruments were interchanged.
On this path-breaking album, Hug and Lonberg-Holm succeed in breathing new life into their instruments as they interrelatenot just as improvising musicians, but simply as two classic instruments, launching into a relationship where one rises to complete the life of the other, and vice versa.
Track Listing
Part One; Part Two; Part Three.
Personnel
Charlotte Hug
violaCharlotte Hug: viola, voice; Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello.
Album information
Title: Fine Extensions | Year Released: 2011 | Record Label: Emanem
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