Tapage & Espoir – Poetic Infomercial Experimentalism

Out now: Tapage & Espoir – Poetic Infomercial Experimentalism

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‘Poetic Infomercial Experimentalism’ is a musical piece, consisting of two parts, that arose after Tapage (Tijs Ham) and Espoir (Roald van Dillewijn) found that no one else had ever tried to write it before. Since they both had a strong feeling that the world would be better if this music is available for everyone, they agreed to come together in monthly sessions to start their creative work. In each session, they tried a different approach to making music which resulted in a lot of improvisation sessions which, at times, could be cryptic, abstract and hard to grasp. But a combined love for homemade instruments and sublime sound sources lay at the core of each session.

The material for this cassette tape arose from two of these sessions. Because the recordings for both sides took place at a different times, a clear difference between these sides can be heard. The consistency is found in the common goal of both musicians to add some musical meaning to this world, however small…