Microtub - Thin Peaks (Digisleeve CD)

Thin Peaks is the sixth album by the microtonal tuba trio Microtub, featuring Robin Hayward (UK/DE), Peder Simonsen (NO), and Martin Taxt (NO). Initially developed during an artist residency in Andersabo, Sweden, the two pieces Thin Peaks and Andersabo” underwent several adaptations before being recorded in 2022. The pieces draw on the acoustic phenomena of half-valve combinations, creating distinctive timbres and harmonic spectra based on the unique half-valve signature of each tuba. Whilst Thin Peaks hockets between the pitches arising from a single half-valve combination, each of the four movements of Andersabo results from a different half-valve combination, sometimes resulting in surprisingly consonant harmonies.