Carter Tutti Void: Triumvirate LP
Containing all new studio
recordings, "Triumvirate" brings Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik
Void’s collaborative partnership as Carter Tutti Void to a conclusion.
The trio first came together as a collective for a live performance,
invited by Mute for the Short Circuit Festival in 2011 and released
their acclaimed debut, the live album "Transverse" the following year.
Carter
Tutti Void went on to release "f(x)" (Industrial Records, 2015), their
first studio recording and performed a handful of selected shows,
culminating in their final live performance in Hull, part of a series of
events for Hull City of Culture 2017 centred around the COUM
Transmissions retrospective at Humber Street Gallery.
For some
time Carter, Tutti and Void have been awaiting an opportunity when all
three artists were able to gather at Carter and Tutti’s Studio47 in
Norfolk, where the album was recorded, produced and mastered.
"Triumvirate" was approached with the improvisational spirit of previous
Carter Tutti Void albums. The rhythms, created by Chris Carter, formed
the foundation and starting point from which the process began of
melding the live instrumentation of Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void’s
searing guitars, vocals, effects and the arsenal of sounds each had
amassed from a variety of sources, some sounds manipulated to extremes,
all fed into the mix. Tying the album together is the power of three, and a free open approach to sound shared by the trio.
Carter Tutti Void are Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris & Cosey
/ Throbbing Gristle) and Nik Void (Factory Floor / NVPR). Chris Carter
recently released his first solo album in 17 years, Chris Carter’s
Chemistry Lessons Vol. 1 (Mute, 2018) and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s TUTTI, her
first album since 1982, came out earlier this year on Conspiracy
International (home of Chris and Cosey since 1982). Nik Void is
currently working on her debut solo album.
Black vinyl in full colour sleeve.