Lea Bertucci and Harry Górski-Brown in session

Jennifer Lucy Allan presents the fruits of our latest exclusive collaboration session, between Glasgow-based pipes player Harry Górski-Brown and New York saxophonist and sound artist Lea Bertucci.

Lea Bertucci's discography spans over a decade, encompassing eight albums of full-length solo work and a number of collaborative projects. An electro-acoustic minimalist with a background in woodwind instruments (primarily the alto saxophone and bass clarinet), her practice as a sound artist includes multichannel audio pieces and explorations of highly-resonant spaces. Her latest release The Oracle, a vocal-focused collection that has been three years in the making, creatively misuses a reel-to-to-reel tape machine to live-manipulate her speech: 'fragments of words and phrases simmer within layers of voice . . . revealing and obscuring images of dreams, warped news headlines and mythological imagery.'

Harry Górski-Brown is a Scotland-based artist and electroacoustic musician. His releases across the Glasgow-based GLARC, Non-Classical and Wild Raver records have seen him reinterpreting Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) songs, which are usually set using voice, pipes, fiddle, organ and electronics. His most recent release, as part of a collection of music from six emerging and prominent Scottish artists, was an imaginative reinterpretation of a Gàidhlig tale of Fearchar Macklin Oig, who took revenge on a landlord who had confiscated his wife’s kettle when she did not have money to give him for their rent. He was an Artist in Residence at Non-Classical from 2023-2025.

Produced by Cat Gough
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