Drempel Noszferatu Finn Peters (sax & flute) ~ Dave Price (percussion) Ivo De Greef (piano) ~ Joe Cutler (creative associate) NMC D166 Noszferatu are on tour in November, 2010 to promote their debut album 'Drempel'.   Concerts include Birmingham Conservatoire 15.11.10; London The Forge (London Jazz Festival) 16.11.10; Cafe Oto, London 19.11.10; and Huddersfield Festival 21.11.10 (a special collaboration with Frederic Rzewski and Howard Skempton). Noszferatu formed in 2001.   They were originally called Nosferatu but early on faced a legal threat of great ferocity from a goth rock band of the same name and so added the z. The four members of Noszferatu met at Durham University when they were students in the early 1990s.   As well as being heavily involved in the contemporary classical scene they also often collaborate in other musical genres such as jazz, pop, physical theatre and tango. 'Let op! drempels' means 'watch out for the ramp' in Dutch. This lively recording by the 'collective' Noszferatu represents a cross-section of repertoire by some of the UK's best experimental composers.   From the haunting minimalism of Howard Skempton's In Tandem and Andrew Poppy's How the Hammer Felt to the jazz-fuelled improvisation of Finn Peters' The Horses Screamed and Dave Price's insanely brilliant Lee's Game. This recording will appeal to fans of ensembles such as Kronos Quartet and Alarm Will Sound plus experimental musicians such as Asa Chang and Polar Bear. 1. Jonathan Powell: Drempel       8'50 2. Andrew Poppy: How the Hammer Felt       7'35 3. Dave Price: Lee's Game        10'36 4. Paul Newland: Trance         11'12 5. Howard Skempton: In Tandem         3'18 6. Joe Cutler: Sikorski B         7'09 7. Finn Peters: The Horses Screamed         6'17 8. Geoff Hannan: Bubblegum         11'31     Total Time         66'48 NMC Recordings are distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading, P.O.Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone (03) 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile (03) 9444 6879