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Title:  Expanded Botanics Artist:  Philipp Wachsmann, Peter Ole Jorgensen, Jakob Riis - Various Artists Label:  Ninth World Music Format:  CD Price:  € 9.50   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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Violin, percussion and laptop may seem like the sort of improv mixture unique to the 21st Century. But then again so are cross-border, co-op aggregations like this one, whose name and that of its CD are both Expanded Botanics. An on-and-off team since 2002, the band consists of one veteran British-Ugandan improviser -- violinist Philipp Wachsmann -- and two Danes: Peter Ole J¿rgensen on drums, percussion and, most importantly home-built instruments, and Jakob Riis on laptop.
Abrasive yet low key at the same time, the music the trio makes is definitely 21st Century as well, calling on multi-disciplinary familiarity from all three. Riis comes from a compositional background, but mixes electronic music and sound art with performances with the Minijacks laptop quartet and drummer Stefan PasborgÕs improv group Toxicum. J¿rgens works with bassist Peter Friis Nielsen and German saxophonist Peter Brštzmann in the Wild Mans Band. Classically-trained, Wachsmann, who adds electronics to his violin here, is an important part of British reedist Evan ParkerÕs Electronic Project as well as a duo with German drummer Martin Blume.
With such cumulative backgrounds it would seem that there isnÕt a sound extant that would surprise any of the participants. You can hear that on the almost 20-minute Aboretum syv. Here WachsmannÕs jettes and pizzicato plucks seem to feed back into the mix either from his electronics or sequenced effects from RiisÕ laptop. This is after the splayed fiddle movement has advanced, double-stopping over a base of drum rumbles, cymbal snaps and staticy flutters from the computer. (...)
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