The experimental Chicago based trio share a recording of a performance at Spot Tavern in Lafayette, Indiana
Turntablist and visual artist Allen Moore casts records from organic matter of personal significance to the artist, such as red clay and flowers from his relatives’ gardens. Alongside cellist and guitarist Ishmael Ali and percussionist Bill Harris, Moore manipulates the sounds emitted from his homemade artefacts, the results of which can be heard on the improvising trio Hearsay's second album Glossolalia.
In their interview with Bill Meyer in The Wire 477, the group explain that since recording Glossolalia they have focussed on performing, with Moore disrupting the outcomes of their improvisations further by often slowing his material right down. “That is something I have found fun about it, the slowness of it,” reveals Harris to Meyer. “It forces you to be in a zone that, as an improvisor, is very challenging. It’s really easy or common, as an improvisor, to just get frenetic and crazy.”
This live show was recorded by Augustine Esterhammer-Fic at Spot Tavern in Lafayette, Indiana in August 2023.
Read the full interview with Hearsay in The Wire 477. Wire subscribers can also read the article online via the digital magazine library. Glossolalia is released by Amalgam.
