Onze Ambassade Festival '24 - SALENTA + TOPU

Salenta Baisden and Topu Lyo, both based in New York, met in 2019 through mutual friends and conversation led to them agreeing to meet to play music together on their respective instruments of piano and cello. Once the initial improvisation at the studio of a friend some months later finally took place, the two were so enthralled by the experience they made it common habit, often doing so in Salenta’s apartment with her imperfectly tuned piano, and making sure to record it all on a range of different recording equipment. The result of their musical activity led to the release of the album ‘Moon Set Moon Rise’, consisting of a selection of 17 recordings from the aforementioned improvised sessions. The album greatly encaptured their playfulness as musicians, their ease with each other’s musicality and character on their instrument, and expressions of musical melancholy, resulting in a beautiful, melodic, timeless album. Their concert at West will be one of a handful of first European concerts they will be doing.
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