Salenta + Topu – Moon Set, Moon Rise [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield ” he takes a more

” he takes a more wistful

Tracks often collapse into a grey zone stretched between composition and improvisation

and Lucas Santanna

established himself as a link between Arnold Schoenberg and Don Cherry

Salenta + Topu – Moon Set, Moon Rise [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield ” he takes a more"It was the lonely, overwhelming early days of the pandemic. Topu Lyo was living in Georgia, feeling distant from his home in New York City, and Salenta De Badisdenne was in Wisconsin helping an elderly relative. When Topu sent Salenta the files of Moon Set, Moon Rise, the project of wistful, contemplative cello and piano music they had recorded over the previous two years, she put off listening for a few weeks because of the stress of her daily life.