GBSR Duo - Ray Lynch & Charles Ives

Award-winning **GBSR Duo** (George Barton and Siwan Rhys), no strangers to the concrete concert hall, present two very different composers of a transcendental bent. On the one hand, a new arrangement for synthesisers and acoustic instruments of Ray Lynch's seminal new age album *Deep Breakfast* (1984), a euphoric creation from start to finish. The only gold album ever by a new age artist on an indie label, it is one of the ultimate cult records, its music synthesising the teachings of Lynch's spiritual guru Adi Da and the pure joy of swooping and popping synth textures. GBSR’s new arrangement has been authorised by the Ray Lynch Estate specially for this occasion.

On the other hand, Charles Ives *Sonata №2 Concord, Mass.*, (1840–60) is his most complete masterpiece, each of the four movements representing a figure associated with transcendentalism; and the music, most of it written by 1915, is straining at the limits both of what was musically comprehensible at the time, and of what is possible on the piano.