Asa Tone & Ariel Kalma - O (2025) [Hi-Res]

Paris-born electronic music pioneer and 1970s GRM alumni Ariel Kalma joins with multinational New York trio Asa Tone (Kaazi, Melati ESP, Tristan Arp) for a series of intergenerational, electro-acoustic studio conversations, exploring elasticity within rhythm and winds… or as one early listener observed “space and time.”

Following a chance encounter at Ariel’s studio in the Australian rainforest during the pandemic, Melati & Kaazi began recording long live takes with Kalma, weaving in bioluminescent synth improvisations from Tristan Arp remotely. Revisited a few years later between the members of Asa Tone’s respective homes in New York & Indonesia, “○” is the document of a significant moment in the lives of all the album’s players; an ode to memory and connection in an era of crisis, illuminated via flickering fragments of steel flute, kantilan, modular synthesizer, xaphoon, tenor sax, EWI, field recordings of the surrounding rainforest, and the human voice.

Ariel Kalma: Western Concert Flute, Xaphoon, Tenor Saxophone, Voice
Melati ESP: EWI, Kantilan, Voice
Kaazi: Hydrasynth, Opsix, Percussion
Tristan Arp: Modular Synthesizer, Moog Sub37, Percussion
Additional percussion on *3 by Miles Myjavec

Tracklist:
1-1 Asa Tone & Ariel Kalma - Interlace [10:38]
1-2 Asa Tone & Ariel Kalma - 28°35'S 153°22'E [5:24]
1-3 Asa Tone & Ariel Kalma - Art of Memory [7:18]
1-4 Asa Tone & Ariel Kalma - Two Winds [7:02]
1-5 Asa Tone & Ariel Kalma - An Expanse II [4:43]
1-6 Asa Tone & Ariel Kalma - O [1:01]