Ellen Fullman & Monique Buzzarté: Fluctuations for February

Ellen Fullman and Monique Buzzarté are about to release the result of their collaborational work over the past three years on Deep Listening Records. “Fluctuations” will be the label’s featured CD for the month of February and is said to explore “ tonalities that unfold with unexpected possibilities”. We expected no less from these two ladies, who have both carved out immediately recognisable and unique niches for themselves in the world of contemporary music: Ellen Fullman as inventor of and composer on the “Long String Instrument”, “in which rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings which has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano” according to her own biography. Monique Buzzarté, on the other hand, has firmly established herself as one of the leading trombonists of the USA, recording John Cage's “Five3” with the Arditti Quartet for Mode Records, helping Noah Creshevsky with his exciting steps into hyperrealism on Tzadik’s “To Know and Not to Know” and working on her own material.