*100 copies limited edition* Confront Recordings announces the release of Tapsalteerie, Depicted in Echo, a mesmerizing duet between Kurdish cellist Khabat Abas and Scottish improviser Ivor Kallin. Captured in the resonant hush of live performance, this album weaves ancient strings into ethereal echoes, where tradition fractures into boundless invention.
Abas's cello—rich with microtonal bends and nomadic grit—collides with Kallin's viola. What emerges is a tapestry of taps, scrapes, and shimmering decays: a "tapsalteerie" of sound (that Scots word for hubbub or uproar) depicted not in stark relief, but through lingering reverberations. Tracks unfold as acoustic mirages—intimate whispers ballooning into cavernous drones, percussive flurries dissolving into harmonic ghosts.
From the brooding pulse of opening salvos to the album's closing susurrations, the duo probes liminal spaces between culture and abstraction. Abas, known for his work bridging Middle Eastern folk with free improv, meets Kallin's textural sorcery—forged in Scotland's experimental underground—to create music that feels both timeless and urgently now.
