Laura & Luzius Schuler – Mandà in Lunga, improvised mountain music

The latest release of Ronin Rhythm Records was released Friday, past: Mandà in Lunga by Laura & Luzius Schuler

In the Swiss Val Poschiavo, siblings Laura and Luzius Schuler confronted themselves with the rugged mountain world and a landscape in flux. With Luzius on the church organ and Laura singing and playing the violin, they improvise purposeful, tension-filled music, correcting our romanticised image of the mountains into something dark and mystical.

The church organ is no longer a monolith but flexible, expandable, capable of singing, while the bow plays the wind, the light and the water. We hear these sounds with pronounced urgency as we gaze up at the rocks. We ourselves in a state of suspension.

Witness the creation of the record here;

In the autumn and winter of 2023, Laura and Luzius Schuler travel to Val Poschiavo to listen to high alpine tales and, much like glacial ice burying stones beneath it, press them onto vinyl.

Laura and Luzius Schuler improvise determined, tension-filled music and correct our romanticized image of the mountains to something magical and mystical. They set nature to music in a state of suspension, in a rhythmic weave, with physical presence and a fine sense of melody and texture. We now hear them with a pronounced urgency when we look up at the rocks. We ourselves in a state of suspension.


Available here.