Invisible Resistances

Take two of contemporary music's most versatile improvising musicians, give them free reign to play and something of real worth is likely to arise. That is the philosophy of Farpoint Recordings, an Irish label founded by Anthony Kelly and David Stalling in 2004. Their trust in pianist Izumi Kimura and violinist/viola player Cora Venus Lunny is well founded. Fearless performers both, they work in a wide variety of improvised, genre-fluid settings that draw variously from folk, jazz and beyond. On this, their second recording following Folding (Farpoint Recordings, 2021)—a singularly poetic meeting of improvised music and Kelly's pristine environmental field recordings—they certainly deliver.