Latency

Releases September 5

Flur is the meeting of Austrian-Ethiopian harpist Miriam Adefris, British saxophonist Isaac Robertson, and percussionist Dillon Harrison.

The trio met while studying separate music courses at Goldsmiths, University of London. Immersed in the university’s explorative music scene, they have performed in various formations over the past few years and collaborated with acclaimed artists including Ganavya, Floating Points, Gal Go, and Shabaka Hutchings. It wasn’t until now, however, that they formally came together as Flur.

Shaped between Riverside Recording Studios and a South Bermondsey warehouse, Plunge captures the trio’s first steps, moving between written passages and intuitive improvisation with equal clarity. Drawing on contemporary classical, free jazz, and ambient influences – think Alice Coltrane, Ambrose Akinmusire, Kaija Saariaho, Azimuth, and Angel Bat Dawid – Flur’s instrumentation creates a sound that is both expansive and intimate.

Plunge follows Latency’s acclaimed releases with Nidia & Valentina, Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, goat (JP), Tarta Relena, and Moritz Von Oswald, further expanding the label’s commitment to boundary-pushing music. The album features cover artwork by Julie Mehretu, the renowned New York-based Ethiopian-American artist whose layered, abstract works explore the entanglements of history, place, and collective memory.