For those not in the know, Canadian composer Gayle Young and American synthesist Robert Wheeler have announced their collaboration on a new album, titled From Grimsby to Milan, showcasing a creative and deliberately eccentric blend of experimental acoustic and electronic musical techniques.

The new work features Young playing her Amaranth, a stringed instrument that she invented, featuring 21 steel strings and three double bass strings to explore the microtonality that has been a trademark throughout her career.

Wheeler fuses his electronic palette on the Electrocomp EML 101 keyboard with Young’s acoustic composition, presenting a variety of percussive metallic sounds, motorized howls, and electric chirps.

From Grimsby to Milan will be released on September 5th, 2025 via Farpoint Recordings in digital and CD formats, with pre-orders soon to be available on Bandcamp and the labels’ website.

1. Seaweed Slowly Shifting [11:03]
2. What’s Up, Puss E Cat [11:00]
3. Rabbits & Riliriks [14:42]
4. Marina Trench [4:53]
5. Iceberg Star Chart [12:09]
6. Constant Harmony [16:25]

With invaluable contributions from Reinhard Reitzenstein whose trees are always upside down (don’t ask), this vital and eccentric release opens on the statically atmospheric, yet alluringly captivating Seaweed Slowly Shifting and the immediately evoking What’s Up, Puss E Cat, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the organically captivating Rabbits & Riliriks, the rhythmically emotive Marina Trench, the set rounding out on the distinctively engaging Iceberg Star Chart, closing on the near seventeen minute texturally explorative opus Constant Harmony.

Musicians:
Gayle Young — Amaranth
Robert Wheeler — EML ElectroComp 101

Official Purchase Link

Official Gayle Young Website

Official Robert Wheeler Website