Triumvirate = the combined power of a group of three in creative collaboration.
Containing all new studio recordings, Triumvirate brings Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void’s collaborative partnership as Carter Tutti Void to a conclusion. The trio first came together as a collective for a live performance, invited by Mute for the Short Circuit Festival in 2011 and released their acclaimed debut, the live album Transverse the following year. Carter Tutti Void went on to release f(x) (Industrial Records, 2015), their first studio recording and performed a handful of selected shows, culminating in their final live performance in Hull, part of a series of events for Hull City of Culture 2017 centred around the COUM Transmissions retrospective.
Triumvirate was approached with the improvisational spirit of previous Carter
Tutti Void albums. The rhythms, created by Chris Carter, formed the foundation
and starting point from which the process began of melding the live
instrumentation of Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void’s searing guitars, vocals,
effects and the arsenal of sounds each had amassed from a variety of sources,
some sounds manipulated to extremes, all fed into the mix. Tying the album
together is the power of three, and a free open approach to sound shared by the
trio.
Carter Tutti Void are Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris & Cosey /
Throbbing Gristle) and Nik Void (Factory Floor / NVPR). Chris Carter recently
released his first solo album in 17 years, Chris Carter’s Chemistry Lessons
Vol. 1 (Mute, 2018) and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s TUTTI, her first album since
1982, came out ear-lier this year on Conspiracy International (home of Chris and
Cosey since 1982). Nik Void is currently working on her debut solo album.