Sheldon Suter

• DIGIPACK EDITION

To listen to Berceuses et Nocturnes, the debut solo album from Swiss drummer and composer Sheldon Suter, is to enter a hallucinatory night-realm animated with hypnagogic serenades and starlit reveries.

Originally starting out as a jazz drummer, but more recently embarking on a boundless quest into non- idiomatic abstraction, notably with the Big Bold Back Bone quartet, Suter has again seemingly reconciled the irreconcilable, fusing genres of different eras and regions in a series of enticingly original, genre-busting forms.

Berceuses et Nocturnes derives its influence from Indonesian gamelan and Satie’s chimerical piano works, but also the Reichian-indebted minimalism of Chicagoan post-rockers Tortoise and woozy time-warping turntablist mumble of The Caretaker, to ferment its captivating after-dark seductions. Bowed zither and cymbals fuse with the somnambulant whirr of a shruti-box to intensify the continuous ripple of gong chime flowing like enchanted cryptography from a carillons a` musique; morse code for divine messengers.

PERSONNEL:

• Sheldon Suter - (percussion, zither, portable turntable, shruti box, harmonica)

Recorded on September 22 & 23, 2022 at Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano Besso

TRACKS:

• 01. Berceuse
• 02. Berceuse II
• 03. Berceuse III
• 04. Nocturne II
• 05. Nocturne III
• 06. Berceuse IV
• 07. Berceuse V
• 08. Nocturne IV
• 09. Nocturne V
• 10. Berceuse VI