In the summer of 2019, we went in to the studio playing around to make a duo record, built on our life-long affinity as siblings. Both being deeply rooted in Western art music, we wanted the record to present our love and ambivalence towards this tradition. Our only preparation was deciding on possible track-titles that would inspire towards different time periods, composers, artistic role models and authorships. We used written music that we morphed and deconstructed, interspersed with completely improvised recordings. When listening later we opted out all music that built on written music except BÄVER; our version of Biber’s Passacaglia for solo violin.

Χαλκίδα is our Greek grandfather’s hometown and the track tells about the split, grief and exile in the twentieth century Europe. The tracks Knüst, Wheel and Scrub explore the possibilities and impossibilities of the violin: a desire for new shared languages.