Pi - 161CD (2023) | Siapiau

Pi - 161CD (2023)

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1.	In Eternam 02:35	buy track
2.	Approximately Diagonal 10:12	buy track
3.	Feasting With Panthers 07:13	buy track
4.	Anterliwt Z01 01:02	buy track
5.	Music For Hands 04:55	buy track
6.	Hamadryad 08:08	buy track
7.	Anterliwt X01 01:33	buy track
8.	I Favour Nonsense 10:43	buy track
9.	October Butterflies 04:31	buy track
10.	Anyerliwt Z02 01:21	buy track
11.	I Am Not Simeon 03:54	buy track
12.	A Message 01:18	buy track

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"The album is balanced on the edge of sounds. Yet the more sounds that are created, the less on the edge they become and soon the listener realises they are mainstream human — heard in the street, in the air, around the house, in the weather, in the bathroom pipes, car sounds on the road outside, birdsong and insect sounds from the bushes and trees. Siapiau tell us that all these sounds are ours, are human, consciously or subconsciously heard and absorbed by us, and felt, seen and heard by all of us, becoming a part of their worlds too.” - Chris Searle, MORNING STAR

"I found this disc to be immensely charming, silly at times and even quite weird at times yet still fun. In some ways, this sounds to me like music for children with the fun & games vibe at the center. It does make me feel good to be alive." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery, NYC

Siapiau is Welsh for 'Shapes', as the four members of the band create shapes in the air out of apparently nothing. The beauty of improvisation is that, at its best, it creates something perfectly fitted to the moment it was created in.

Siapiau is a new project from four improvisers who have been playing together in different formats for over twenty years. It's a band who aren't afraid of the experimental, but aren't afraid of a good groove either. It's improvised music that you could, at times, dance to. The line-up is Maggie Nicols on voice and keyboard, Fran Bass on electric bass, Richard Harrison on Drums and percussion and Phil Hargreaves on tenor/soprano sax and flute. Although Maggie is the main vocalist, we all sing. As does everybody, of course.

It started in September 2021, when after the annual Grand Gathering for improvising musicians at Melin Dolwion in South Wales, me, Fran and Maggie did an online Gathering. After a week of playing together we had a fine understanding, and I emailed Maggie to say that all we needed was to add a drummer, and there was a very good band. She agreed, and so it went...

But then, maybe it started in 2012, when me and Maggie began work on our duo album, 'Human'. Or maybe it started in 2006 with the band Mesmerise, with Maggie and Fran. Or maybe in 2001, when Richard played on my improvising big band/poetry project 'The Dislocation Sermons'. Or was it 1999 when I first met Maggie, working with the Frakture Big Band. Let's just say, that we have history, both together and separately. - Phil Hargreaves

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released September 19, 2023

Fran Bass - electric bass, voice, little instruments
Phil Hargreaves - tenor/soprano sax, flute, voice, little instruments
Richard Harrison - drums/percussion, voice, little instruments
Maggie Nicols - voice, keyboard, little instruments

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