Calum Builder & Matt Choboter: Locusts and Honey

Debut release of Australian-Canadian Duo, saxophonist Calum Builder and pianist Matt Choboter record their take on a classic duo format.

Locusts and Honey is the first release of the Copenhagen-based Australian- Canadian duo. A labour of kindred friendship (developing out of post- graduate studies together at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen) this work, recorded during the 2020 lockdown, harkens the emergence of a new period of immense expressive and aesthetic change. Here, it is as if they are holding on to the last vestiges of past musical selves. This work simply would not exist in any other time pocket and we are thankful for its release.

Shifting between sublime ambience and seething spirit these nine improvisations weave between the cracks of avant-jazz, experimental and contemporary classical. Locusts and Honey encompasses a tension of both a fervent frenzy and contemplative meditation.

Catalogue#: ILK349
Release date: 27-10-2023

Credits: 
Recorded at St. Augustines Church in Copenhagen. Recorded by Simon Mariegaard.
Mixed by John Fomsgaard.
Mastered by Sam Nacht.
Produced by Calum Builder and Matt Choboter
Analog Photography by Raphael Gimenes.
Album Design by Žilvinas Jagėla.