Nothing is explained in the mysteries around us, but some art touches their soul: last year, Justin Tripp, one half
of the US-American impro electronic duo Georgia and London-based electronic artist Zaheer Gulamhusein man
behind projects like Waswaas and XVARR -joined forces as STRING. Together they went on a virtual vacation and
never came back. As the virtual is fully real due to its virtuality, they created a truly authentic aural hardware
journey, hauntingly adventurous, calm, and surprising.
Without defining the scope, STRING tumbled through a dark musical zone that stretched to the horizon, letting
the sound shape itself while falling discreet into an appealing abstract space. Hovering clockwise shortly above
the ground, they formed impossible geometric musical figures - weightless, fluid clouds, made up of relations
between asymmetrical elements. Like in nature, their collaborative work avoids identical characteristics. In an
expression of respectful admiration, they softly celebrate the irregularities between their specific genetic musical
fingerprints, creating eight light binding clouds of dawn. A meditative musical voyage that transports cosmic
particles of idealistic Berlin school ambient right into the heart of their electronic machines. All tunes swing calm
but constitutive, dancing around synthesized surfaces that form obsessed flaming orbs of fear and hope, of
matter and antimatter.
A shared love for hardware and the ethos of improvisation guided STRING into an experimentation, in which each
party aligns closely to the core ideas of co-operative, in-the-moment electronic music, tied across the eight tracks
in a sequence.
Finding a home with the highly esteemed Hamburg based label V I S, STRING’s debut “Last Index Of…“ will enter
the earth in double vinyl and cassette format, plus tripping on at the digital platforms.
(Text written by Michael Leuffen)