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Kurt Buttigieg & Robert Farrugia - Live in Malta (9Jan2021)

from No Lockdown Transonic Sessions - Winter 2020​-​21 by Transonic

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Saying the first Covid lockdown was a sudden spanner in the works which forced most of the world to reconsider whatever they were doing is nearly glib at this point, but it's also true.

For us, it was a time for duality. Kurt founded a label, called Complex Holiday, and nearly immediately after Robert joined the project. This duality is present in location (we’re both Maltese, but Kurt is based in Brussels and Robert in Malta), in what kind of sounds we want to release (Kurt is steeped in experimental music and sound art, Robert soothing, long-form ambient), from where and in the way we work. We didn’t know each other too well, but working on a project is often the best way to get to know someone, especially as air travel was nearly completely impossible. This is by no means unusual in the scenes in which we operate, which are based on building strong links between like-minded people worldwide. However, it also highlighted the importance of an immediate local scene or habitual partners-in-crime at some point in the process, which by then was somewhat in disarray.

The label, coming at such a strange time, taught us the ins and outs of working at a distance, and of working with each other. Timidly at first, each wary of stepping over the other person's toes, then with more confidence as the track progressed. This is our first ever track together, which we did away from each other and in a manner we usually wouldn’t have. We would have normally had a face-to-face interaction followed by a long improvisation from which we would have culled parts we found interesting. Instead, the track was built bit by bit from our daily contacts where we often spoke of a more esoteric thing - time. We didn't know where it was going but, in many ways, the track ended up illustrating where our mind was over the last year - frozen time, with unequal parts delight and frustration borne out of distancing and having to do things differently. Covid made us do it.

> Kurt Buttigieg : kbuttigieg.bandcamp.com
> Robert Farrugia : robertfarrugia.bandcamp.com

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