percorsi musicali

Weaving Waves is a duo with Turkish cellist (and photographer, who took the cover photo) Anil Eraslan, who has musical projects in Berlin, Strasbourg, and Istanbul, ranging from Anatolian traditional music to experimental music, noise, and free improvised music. The album was recorded by Thieke at Golgatha-Kirche in Berlin in September 2024, without an audience, and features fourteen, mostly miniature pieces whose titles are read as: we have nothing to play and we are playing it and that is music. The entire recording session is presented in the original sequence and without editing.

This duo was born from Thike and Eraslan’s shared attention to silence, breath, and resonance. Their music evokes a highly intimate atmosphere focusing on the fragile resonance of Thieke’s breaths and Eraslan’s deep-toned cello, and often using breaths and the cello’s bow for percussive gestures and otherworldly sounds. The music develops patiently, exploring delicate harmonies and minimalist textures consisting of a few, concise gestures and deep listening dynamics, even through the longest pieces. There are some brief bursts of raw, energetic waves, and even a playful interplay on “is”, but they only emphasize the subtle, slow-shifting, and reserved spirit of this dialogue suspended in time.

Eyal Hareuveni