Ka Baird/ Pekka Airaksinen - FRKWYS Vol. 17: Hungry ShellsHungry Shells, the seventeenth entry in RVNG Intl.'s intergenerational collaborations series FRKWYS, brings together vocalist and multi instrumentalist Ka Baird with avant garde composer and radical performance art pioneer Pekka Airaksinen. Recorded six months before Pekka's passing in 2020, Hungry Shells alchemizes separate but similar spiritualistic practices, canvassing Baird's sound rituals and Airaksinen's acid drenched poetics into startling,

Finding progression in regression

Thirteen years and seven recordings after beginning his association with Criss Cross

" The Sacred Nine Project opens old wounds to help heal fresh ones

all sections cover themselves with glory

folk and cowboy tunes

This subtle interpretation of the Variations is performed by Professor Won-Sook Hur

the only GROUCHO

The works are more than personal favourites

but the buzzer hasn't worked for fifteen years

though without the American composer's aim of disconcerting the listener

is a 13-track recording co-produced by Jo Dee

Johnny Pate bass and Al Williams on drums