Angrusori is a double-orchestra (think Mayer-Harriott double quintet) fronted by composer-musicians Nils Henrik Asheim and Iva Bittová. He is Norwegian, and she Moravian Czech with Slovak, Hungarian and Roma DNA. Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway fund the so-called EEA and Norway Grants to contribute to a more equal Europe and to strengthen bonds between those and other European countries. Originally Phuterdo Øre, now rebranded as Angrusori, this multi-discipline project meets those criteria here.

The focus is on Slovakian and Norwegian improvisatory styles. That tight focus explains why Live At Tou sticks to Slovak Roma and jazz rather than drifting into Norwegian Romanisœl Traveller music traditions. Its bedrock is Jana Beliová's research into Slovak Roma song variants.

Immaculately arranged and orchestrated, Live At Tou starts with the declarative overture titled (in translation) ‘When I Was Going Home’. Roman Harvan's bowed cello opens, laying out a blanket. Drones tuck in. Next, wordless higher-register sonorities resolve into Bittovás distinctive vocalisations, in turn giving way to a swell of chorused Roma voices. Live At Tou may have familiar elements from her past – mezzo-soprano voicings and bird mimicry, for example – but it is a progression. Asheim and Bittová create a different palette from any the violin-vocal virtuosa has painted with before. A fine example is ‘I'm Looking For My Way’ with its wide range of vocal and instrumental, melodic, rhythmic and tempo improvisations. And then there is the whole subject of the lyrical element (in Roma and translation) about the Roma experience…