The first duo album by David Grubbs (electric guitar) and Quentin Rollet (alto & sopranino saxes, electronics).
David Grubbs (born 1967) is an associate professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. Grubbs has released numerous solo albums and is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with writers such as Susan Howe and Rick Moody, and with visual artists such as Anthony McCall,
Angela Bulloch, and Stephen Prina. He was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol (with
Jim O'Rourke), Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with the Red Krayola, Will Oldham,
Tony Conrad,
Pauline Oliveros, and
Loren Connors, among many others. His work has been presented at, among other venues, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. He is a grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a contributing editor in music for
BOMB Magazine, a member of the
Blank Forms board of directors, and director of the Blue Chopsticks record label.
Quentin Rollet (born 1974) started playing the alto saxophone at the age of 11 and the sopranino saxophone at 37. After a few years spent unlearning the teaching of the conservatory, he devoted himself solely to free improvisation. This led him to play on record or on stage with groups as varied as
Nurse With Wound, Prohibition, The Red Krayola, Mendelson,
David Grubbs, Herman Dune,
Akosh S. Unit,
Thierry Müller, Rubin Steiner,
eRikm,
Jac Berrocal,
Andrew Liles, Bästard, Ulan Bator,
Costes,
Red,
Melmac, Dragibus, Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws,
Jérôme Lorichon,
Charlie O, Dan-Charles Dahan, Zsolt Söres, Pal Toth, Jean-Noël Cognard, Jean-Pierre Barja, Rivkah, Benoît de Villeneuve...... He is a member of
Pointe du Lac, and the co-founder of the labels
Rectangle (with
Noël Akchoté),
reQords and
Bisou Records.
