Sikora Culpo Duo

NEW ALBUM: The Paris Sessions, Volume 2: Speaking In Tongues

(September 4, 2020)

« Open your mind and listen! » – Lynn René Bayley

PRESS RELEASE

“Then again, the architecture is constructed jointly… two master masons laying course after course, conjuring shape and structure without predictable blueprint, building one upon the other, closely elegant, climbing on a dare, avoiding symmetrical cliché to behold clean lines and subtle curlicues, zig-zag colonnades and sudden, brief friezes… piano and sax lines momentarily tightly wound in helical pinnacles of sound from which to take in the view.”

— A Jazz Noise

“…there are also free jazz musicians, particularly reed-and-piano duos, that seem to understand that no matter how completely spontaneous music is, it must still be music. The duo of Ivo Perelman and Matthew Shipp is one of these, and here the duo of Catherine Sikora and Christopher Culpo stake their claim to join them in the free jazz hierarchy. Open your mind and listen!”

— Lynn René Bayley, Art Music Lounge

“Thus, while not in any way mainstream, Sikora and Culpo have produced a compelling and pleasant set of exploratory improv that makes for good music on a rainy Sunday morning. Or any other morning for that matter.”

— Avant Music News

About

Sikora/Culpo Duo music has been described as open and responsive, with their musical lines being cohesive and together yet springing into unexpected directions, diverging and then converging, filled with surprise and humor.

In sum: free and fresh.

The Parisian duo of saxophonist Catherine Sikora and pianist Christopher Culpo was formed in 2014, when Sikora was artist in residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.

The artists began their collaboration immediately upon meeting, establishing a musical rapport that has continued to evolve in the following years.