Rawfishboys
So, no piano, just clarinet and bass, in wonderful duets that resonate with the melancholy and sadness of the original pieces,without strict adherence to melody and harmonics.
Rawfishboys has the intimacy of chamber music, with both musicians transforming the undescribable warmth of their wooden instruments' into to the color of their tones, even in the free improvised parts. They mix delicate and touching songs with some slightly harsher improvised pieces. It is calm, lyrical, welcoming, usually slow ... but with a great taste for adventure, taking the overall sound into areas that are new, with gut-wrenching bowing on bass and hypnotic dark sounds coming out of the bass clarinet, or Badenhorst's unvoiced blowing at times that is more percussive than melodic.
Artists and performers
Flanders Arts Institute
Expertise centre for performing arts, music and visual arts.