Al Maslakh Records: MSLKH 13 https://www.almaslakh.org/catalog_mslkh13.php

• Magda Mayas: piano
• Tony Buck: drums

https://www.magdamayas.jimdo.com/ https://www.tony-buck.com/ https://www.thenecks.com/

Track 1 recorded live by Teemu Korpipää at Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, on the 12th of November 2010 during the Äänen Lumo Festival For New Sounds. Track 2 recorded live at Nasjonal Jazz Scene, Oslo, on the 20th of October 2010.

Reviews

By Adam Strohm 
https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7124

[...]

The two 2010 performances that make up Stockholm Syndrome are similar in
character. Both tracks feature Mayas and Buck largely eschewing the
conventional sound of their instruments, playing a scattered, kitchen-sink
variety of improvisation. Mayas pays little attention to the black and white
keys of her instrument; instead, she plays its innards, creating shiny
crescendos with scrapes of its wires and plucking prepared strings, or even,
from the sound of it, letting loose objects rattle about in the instrument’s
body. Buck’s credited as playing drums, but it’s rare for long stretches that
one hears an easily identifiable drum. Buck’s arsenal focuses more on bells,
cymbals, and other tools of clank and clatter. It’s at Stockholm Syndrome‘s
most chaotic moments that the drums and piano sound most like themselves, but
even then, there’s something amiss in the ruckus, an off-kilter quality to the
music’s boil. Even at full tilt, the album moves with an erratic gait.

The music comes on like an intermittent rain, the sort of spring shower that
can go from a sprinkle to a deluge and back again in the span of a few minutes,
its fluctuations in intensity occurring quickly, and without warning. Stockholm
Syndrome has little magnetism; it’s an album that requires a concerted ear, and
is inconsistent in its rewards. At times, the individual sounds that Buck and
Mayas are making are more interesting than the whole they create in tandem, and
the music can move so quickly that its best moments are quickly dashed against
the rocks while Mayas and Buck move on to something new. Like a debate waged in
made-up languages, improv of this sort can be frustratingly difficult to pin
down, but that can be part of the appeal.

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By Richard Pinnell 
https://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=7056

By Thomas Millroth 
https://www.soundofmusic.nu/recension/magda-mayas-tony-buck-spill-stockholm-syndrome

Par Guillaume Belhomme (fr)