Robyn schulkowsky, New Music’s high priestess of percussion, and Joey Baron, one of the liveliest and most creative drummers in New York’s downtown scene, come from very different avant-garde traditions. Yet in meshing their talents when they play, categories blur – or rather dissolve. What they bring with them is a kind of oceanic experience.
Joey Baron is at home in contemporary jazz. He is one of John Zorn’s favorite drummers and can often be heard alongside Bill Frisell; he played with dizzy Gillespie, stan Getz, Jim Hall and carmen McRae; and has also spanned the atlantic in his recent work with Jakob Bro as well as made a cd in duet with Irène schweizer on Intakt Records. Robyn schulkowsky moved from the Usa to europe, where she collaborated on and brought to life the works of New Music’s greats. there is hardly a high-ranking avantgarde composer missing from the list: she has worked with karlheinz stockhausen, Mauricio kagel, John cage, Morton Feld- man, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, christian Wolff. From the very beginning she was a sound innovator.
Now You Hear Me. Invocative, making the presence of a condition felt, appropriating and relinquishing – everyday reality and ritual. Now. from the liner notes by Bert Noglik

Cover art: Susann schaer
Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Photo: Dariusz Gackowski
Liner notes: Bert Noglik

Music by Joey Baron and Robyn Schulkowsky. Recorded March 21, 22, 2016, by Adrian von Ripka in Berlin. Mixed and mastered March 23, 24, 2017, by Adrian von Ripka.
Executive production by Florian Keller. Produced by Joey Baron, Robyn Schulkowsky and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt.