New Jersey born Mark Holub formed the ground-breaking quintet Led Bib in 2004. They released their debut album on SLAM Productions in 2005 and have gone onto release six more albums and have received numerous awards and accolades. On 'Taschendrache' he teams up with acclaimed Austrian violinist Irene Kepl for an improvised recording.
With their unusual instrumentation Holub and Kepl move through frenetic free improv, to wistful melodies, to pummelling grooves. The duo was formed shortly after Holub's arrival in Vienna in 2012 and from the start it was a special musical meeting of two sympathetic voices.
Of this recording Mark writes: "Playing in duo is always an exciting prospect, a chance to have a proper musical dialogue with just one person, but also it allows you to fully have the space to explore your own sound-world because of the openness in sound that a duo can bring. With this particular duo...it also has the excitement that derives from it being an instrumental combo that is rarely heard which helps to enable us to approach it afresh each time, without preconceptions of what the music could or should sound like. With the actual recording process I think we were able to capture the various approaches of the duo, from freewheeling grooves, to abstract noise to beautiful soundscapes."
Personnel: Irene Kepl (violin and electronics), Mark Holub (drums)
