Legendary inventor Pierre Bastien collaborates with virtuosic and pioneering trumpet player Louis Laurain in new duo CNT to record their debut album at The Rose Hill - to be released later in the year on Rose Hill Records.
“A mad musical scientist with a celebrity following” by The Guardian about Pierre Bastien.
The duo have said that trumpets are one handed instruments leaving the other hand free! Pierre & Louis play their trumpets with 4 hands and sometimes even without their mouths to create an orchestra of pounding rhythm, melody, bass and more!
Pierre Bastien has built a cult following best known as musician and inventor for building sound machines and instruments made from Meccano parts and powered by motors taken from old record players which activate gears, pulleys and all sorts. Previously he has collaborated with fashion designer Issey Miyake, singer and composer Robert Wyatt and Aphex Twin (who released three of his albums on his label Rephlex) to name a few, and is heralded as one of the most influential musicians working in the field of experimental music. Pierre’s website
Louis Laurain is a virtuosic and wildly entertaining player. Any of you who caught his solo show supporting Pierre last year here would surely agree. His music lives at the borders of experimental music, electro-acoustics, Jazz and performance art. He has developed his own personal dynamic language for playing the trumpet which is amazing to watch ! He has collaborated with Eliane Radigue, Stephen O’Malley, Umlaut Big band, Pierre Huyghe, Axel Dorner, Guy One, Perrine Bourel, Xavier Charles, Mosin Kawa, Yves-Noel Génot, John Tilbury, Nicolas Collins, Zombie-Zombie, Chakib Bouzidi, Pierce Warnecke.
He is also a member of the Berlin band DIE HOCHSTAPLER, the French-Polish group LUMPEKS, the duo TDTNDG and has toured in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America and Russia. Louis Laurain website
COME AND SEE THEIR BRAND NEW WORK LIVE AT THE END OF RESIDENCY SHOW!!!