I’m thrilled to announce that our album Mia Zabelka/Tungu/Stefan Strasser ‚the confidence of one swimming against the current‚ (FMR Records CD707-0824) is on Bandcamp’s „Best Experimental Music“ list of November !! „The first work by the trio of Tungu (aka Ukraine’s Sergiy Senchuk), Austria’s Mia Zabelka, and Germany’s Stefan Strasser is so diverse that attempting to give it a genre label would be futile. Using violin, voice, guitar, bass, electronics, field recordings, and more, the group crafts 17 short tracks (most lasting less than four minutes) that are impressively open to any sound they deem interesting. The result is music that sometimes sounds like standard, well-done improvisation, sometimes like aggressive noise, and often simply creates its own sonic universe. Take “Profundity Unveiled,” a spacious piece whose oddly repetitive sounds create rhythm, but whose whirrs and clacks also feel random. That’s a method used often in The Confidence of One Swimming Against the Current, an album that sounds both precisely controlled and ready to dive into the deep end.“