Music for opera #1 (EP), by Bing/Santospirito

Music for opera #1 (EP)

by Bing/Santospirito

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1.	The Egg Islands 01:50	buy track
2.	The River God 01:58	buy track
3.	The Huon Horror 05:38 video	buy track

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Music for Opera #1 ~ High drama on the water.

Three pieces for violin and piano, recorded on a river.

Raw recordings, unmixed and unmastered, these pieces were captured whilst the band was recording compositions for a theatre play (A Mouthful of 'C' Words for Mona Foma 2023).

Natalya had been recovering from Covid during the sessions and originally we had thought these warm-up pieces were just throwaway improvised fragments. We changed our minds after repeated listens. Somehow we seemed to have channelled some gothic emotions, maybe bubbling up from the violent history of the area.

During these sessions Josh was awake at 5am on the deck above the water and witnessed his first rakali; a beautiful native Australian mammalian water-rat with a splendid white-tipped tail. In Robbie Arnott's book 'Flames' there is a rakali river god dwelling in the South Esk River (in Northern lutruwita / Tasmania).

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released June 1, 2023

Bing/Santospirito are
Natalya Bing - Violin
Joshua Santospirito - Piano

Studio recording - Jethro Pickett
Studio dog - Juno
Photo - Ursula Woods

Recorded on the stolen land of the melukerdee people, Glaziers Bay, lutruwita / Tasmania.

We pay our sincerest respects to the palawa people who have made music on this country since time immemorial.

Thanks to ~ Jo Couper, Nick Maher, Ursula, Jethro and Juno, Lucien Simon, Chris Mead, Salamanca Arts Centre, Brian Ritchie and Shelley McCuaig and everyone at Mona Foma, our friends and family and everyone who continually supports us in our music and art-lives.

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Bing/Santospirito TAS, Australia

A heady combination of classical music and the strange. Hailing from Australia; half Colombian Natalya Bing and Joshua Santospirito create intense and mesmerising live audiovisual performances at major festivals and underground venues.

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