Mordecoli

Ecka Mordecai & Valerio Tricoli’s cello and Revox tape duo yield a starkly gripping form of avant-classical gloom on debut full length with Luke Younger’s Alter, sure to seduce disciples of Hildur Gudnadottir, Leila Bordreuil, Helge Sten.

The phantasmic musique concrète silhouettes of ‘Château Mordécoly’ derives from wine-soused sessions at London’s esteemed Cafe Oto, where Mordecai’s roots and branches in early music and avant-classical are heard subtly warped, tattered, and braided by Tricoli’s preternatural Revox B77 reel-to-reel tekkerz. The three part suite proceeds from Mordecai’s superb solo debut, proper, ‘Promise & Illusion’ (Otoroku, 2022) and the first Mordecoli tape ‘The Addiction’ (Hedione, 2022) with 40 minutes of music that characterises and bottles the increasing intensity of their collaborations, ongoing in private for the better part of the past decade. The results are cinematic, unsettling, yet somehow sexy in their evocative grasp of a writhing psychedelia and emotional register, congealing voice, wooden body, horsehair and tape in symbiotic metaphysicality.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Part I ......... 20:09
• A2. Part II ......... 05:21

• SIDE B
• B1. III ......... 14:04