Andreas Schaerer & Lucas Niggli - Arcanum (2014) {Intakt CD 232}

Just vocals and drums – that’s the line-up of the dream team of Andreas Schaerer and Lucas Niggli. Outstanding virtuosity and enormous creativity combined with the intuition of sleepwalkers, produces an astonishing sound universe full of surprises.

The imagination and ability of the two musicians to communicate and react is key to their free improvisations, which nevertheless are very precise.

The album was recorded in the legendary “Loft” club in Cologne and is a mixture of live and studio recordings. The result is music played on the first instruments of mankind – voice and drum – which is opulent and impulsive, direct and delicate.

Personnel
Andreas Schaerer: Voice, Electronics
Lucas Niggli: Drums, Percussion

All compositions by Andreas Schaerer & Lucas Niggli (SUISA).
Recorded at Loft Cologne, September, 11, 12, 2013 by Christian Heck.

Tracks
1. Pipe Tomahawk 2:44
2. Ancient Glow 6:44
3. How To Shoot a Medevial Longbow 11:00
4. Arcanum 7:00
5. Adansonia Digitata 3:00
6. Chasing the Frog 1:33
7. Marbelcore 5:26
8. Hallucigenia 6:17