Salenta + Topu + Andrew Pekler

silent green presents

Salenta + Topu
It was the lonely, overwhelming early days of the pandemic. Topu Lyo was living in Georgia, feeling distant from his home in New York City, and Salenta De Badisdenne was in Wisconsin helping an elderly relative. When Topu sent Salenta the files of Moon Set, Moon Rise, the project of wistful, contemplative cello and piano music they had recorded over the previous two years, she put off listening for a few weeks because of the stress of her daily life. When she finally played the music, she was blown away by what they had created together.

The 17 songs on this album are patient, exploratory, and dynamic. The keys tiptoe through space at some moments, and pirouette ecstatically at others. The cello provides a sonic backbone that glows like amber. With song titles like Woman Reading a Letter and Light Coming On The Plains, the album evokes vignettes of home, falling asleep with someone you love, learning to soothe yourself.

Both artists, as well as their community of friends and fellow musicians, see the music as healing. Topu and Salenta hope that listeners feel the peacefulness and liberation they experienced while creating these songs.


Andrew Pekler
Andrew Pekler works with techniques of digital sampling and synthesis to re–contextualize found sounds and archival musical materials. Since 2002 he has released solo and collaborative musical works for labels includung Faitiche, Shelter Press, Kranky, Staubgold and Senufo Editions.
Pekler has also produced a number of video and installation works – always in combination with sound. Together with cultural anthropologist Kiwi Stefanie Menrath he developed PhantomIslands - A SonicAtlas, an interactive online map that charts the sounds and histories of a number of islands that were once found on nautical maps but have since disappeared.
In addition to his studio productions, Andrew Pekler has composed music for theater, dance, installations, and film.




Wednesday, September 11
Kuppelhalle
Doors 7 pm / Start 8 pm

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