Reuter,Markus / Boddy,Ian Dervish CD

Dervish is Markus Reuter & Ian Boddy's most challenging studio collaboration to date. Recorded in England & Austria, the album contains a guest appearance by King Crimson's drummer Pat Mastelotto. Inspired in part by the musical theories of 20th Century composer Olivier Messiaen, there's a terse angularity to the compositions whose unexpected textures feature the appearances of a string quartet & a recorder player. Atmospheric loops, cross-picking arpeggios, unresolved sequences that hang in the air, and some metallic edged soloing that carves it's own unique space. All add extra layers of momentum and tension to a music already brimming with invention and mystery. You may have heard Boddy and Reuter before but you've not heard them sound like this.

1. Dervish 2. Stealth 3. Tableaux 4. Joker 5. The Watcher of Loneliness 6. Angst 7. Spiral Manoeuvre