Loris

Loris was Sarah Hughes, Patrick Farmer, and Daniel Jones. We played together from from 2009-2014 and released one album, Cat from Cat Hill, on Another Timbre.

“Despite that feline title, and as any skoolboy noes, lorises are slow-moving nocturnal primates that inhabit dense vegetation in South Asia.  And Loris - Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes and Daniel Jones - improvise sounds that inch forwards so gradually, almost reluctantly in fact, that your brain can’t properly compute the totality of their creeping sonic forestation at any given moment.  These improvisations, to borrow Evan Parker’s famous catchphrase, are instinctively laminal as sustained tones from Hughes’s zither (the only element that vaguely harks back to ‘music’) dovetail against crackling feedback and the more feral terrain of Framer’s crunched twigs and arrythmic earth.  Shifts of texture occur sporadically and without seismic structural earthquakes; the music just seems to know, and goes there.” (Philip Clark, The Wire)