Ikue Mori / Steve Noble (Duo) at Cafe OTO

About

Ikue Mori and Steve Noble first played together in 2010, here at Cafe Oto. It was immediately evident to everyone in the room that something had clicked and a very special combination had emerged. A second encounter in 2011 more than confirmed this initial impression and extended the range of the duo, opening up plenty of ground to be explored in their third meeting. Apparently operating according to some sort of shared dream logic, Mori and Noble’s music is always unpredictable but never incoherent, switching suddenly between ominous abstract soundscapes and exuberant rhythmic interplay, peppered with strange recurrences, idiomatic fragments and vertiginous changes of perspective, and characterized by a strong sense of forward momentum.