The PIANO dances. With grace, with verve, in small steps, majestically, with full power, strictly in form, but already inventive, with serious humour, obtrusively loud, cool to the point, playfully delicate - self-confident, it woos the VOICE. The voice resists, holds on to the words, transparent, near the ear, sends on the accordion in advance with its short-long breath, the rattling tin-box, the police siren, manoeuvres of diversion, and yet allows itself to be seduced twice, so that the words all get confused and the sounds start tumbling through the vocal chords and there's a lot of excitement about so much love. That's «1984» and «The Unanswered Call».
Here's a couple, encountering each other fourteen times in different forms. Musically together for four years, they are making no jazz, no wave, no age, no normal songs and no «serious music», but telling us stories about great and important things with a smile in their eyes and in their tones: about parting, giving, living, dying. And about loving.
Here's a woman and a man, voice and piano, Corina Curschellas and John Wolf Brennan. «ENTUPADAS» means encounters - the title is not accidental. In this music fidelity to the words meets the freedom of improvisation, the straightforward tone meets the flirting sound, minimalism meets lavishness, wisdom meets irony, kiss meets sting. And they form fourteen messages about wooing.
Beyond technologies, forms and gestures there is also an encounter of cultural heritages: Eisler and Brecht are here, Boris Vian, George Orwell, France, America « Pius Knüsel (Mr Knüsel works as a cultural editor for Swiss Television)
Corina Curschellas (voice, dulcimer, kalimba, accordion, flute, police siren, drums, zither, piano, drums), John Wolf Brennan (piano, synthesizer, invisible strings).
Tracks 1-8 recorded in Berne, Studio DRS, November 26, 1985.
Tracks 9-14 recorded digitally Live at the “kleintheater” in Lucerne, March 31, 1988.