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This musical duo plays with a lot of guts – even a bit of swagger – and it pays off: the listener regularly has his ears heated. Partly because Bipolar Bows moves at the intersection between folk, jazz and classical, their flaming and extremely tight interplay evokes warm memories for me of the unsurpassed Greene String Quartet and the legendary American fiddler Richard Greene.
— Ton Maas - Mixed Word Music
“You may believe me or not, but something that happens very rarely happened here: I have played this record at least twenty times now and the more I hear it, the better it gets”
— Rootstime.be - Dani Heyvaert
The worlds they open up are extraordinarily colorful and fascinating [...] atmospheric creations with a classically inspired starting point, through various musical traditions, and with hunger for experiment and improvisation. The two instruments reach out to each other with an orchestral boost, even in the smallest pianissimo, revealing an impressive dynamic range.
— Newfolksounds.nl - Bart Vanoutrive
 

We are…

 

The French-Belgian duo Bipolar Bows was born from a study project between cellist Toby Kuhn and violinist Lotte Remmen which outgrew its first purpose to grow in to something more than the sum of its parts. They first met in 2016 in Slovenia when Toby jumped in as a bassist for Lotte's band Old Salt. Many jams and practice-sessions later they were a duo.

Bipolar Bows gave the pair an outlet for the explorations of styles, traditions and techniques and adapting them to their instruments. In 2019, after much urging from friends and peers, they decided to bring their work to the stage and share beauty and delight with their public, a mosaic of music ranging from classical to traditional, to jazz, blues or funk, from the Balkans to Appalachia, always highlighting improvisations from the deepest corners of their brains..

 

Violin / Lotte Remmen
Cello / Toby Kuhn

 
 
 
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