The Rotunda 9 March 2025 (99:49) is a document of Chuck van Zyl continuing his exploration of the unclaimed regions. Rare in terms of sheer aural excitement and sustained emotional force, his concerts of improvised Electronic Music travel from the willfully discordant, barren and surreal, to more orderly rhythms rising along motoring sequencer lines and new heights. Once within this wordless realm the listener travels down broken chords of silvery harmony, along expressive synth-lead melodies, to drift easily beneath spacey modulated effects - where we might feel the flow of The Universe. Pulling us into the future every spontaneous digression seems like a new destination. While lightly syncopated patterns dance through minor-key scales an atmospheric depth builds and releases to trembling softness. The sounds, distant and frosty, then intricately plush move through you, and disappear - settling us upon otherworldly serenity, yet constrained with gentle purposefulness. Throughout the recordings of these two live sets we find electricity being transformed into a material of emotional weight. There is poetry to be found somewhere within all the voltages, currents, timbre and tone - in this sonic sonnet which hopes only to help us face the world with more love, light and life.
The Rotunda 9 March 2025 was released by The Rotunda on 15 March 2026 - coinciding with the Chuck van Zyl concert event at The Rotunda in Philadelphia.
Proceeds from the sale of The Rotunda 9 March 2025 go to support the efforts of The Rotunda in Philadelphia.
- From the Press Release 12 March 2026 |
