Platform

DIGIPACK EDITION

Flux Reflux is the second recorded outing of this improvising quartet, and the first one for Clean Feed. While Platform’s first album "Anthropocene", was recorded right after the French clarinetist Xavier Charles joined three young musicians from Oslo to form a quartet, "Flux Reflux" is the result of several years of live experience.

The album consists of 6 acoustic, improvised pieces, and contains no compositions in the traditional sense of the word. Yet all tracks have a clear direction, with few, well balanced musical elements packed into each piece. Parallell to Darwin’s discovery of how life can develop without intelligent design, this music organizes itself without a composer. Every piece composes itself through the individual decisions of the musicians. And in the same way, Platforms style has developed clear esthetics through the years, without intentional steering from above.

PERSONNEL:

XAVIER CHARLES, clarinet
KATRINE SCHIOTT, cello
JAN MARTIB GISMERVIK, drums
JONAS CAMBIEN, piano, casio SK1

TRACKS:

01. Début
02. Flux
03. Reflux
04. Interlude
05. Ce que le vent d'ouest n'a pas vu
06. Fin