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Lund Quartet are an instrumental band from Bristol. Their sound is made partially distinctive by the use of a turntable as the lead instrument, as well as their frequent use of the theremin. Their music has been described as a bouillabaisse of Harold Budd, Portico Quartet, Arve Henriksen and Portishead. They released their debut album Lund Quartet on the 17th December 2011 on the label A Future Without. The group is composed of Simon Adcock (piano and theremin), Jake Wittlin (turntables), Rob Childs (double bass), and Sam Muscat (drums).

The band is unusual in that it uses the turntable as a melodic instrument rather than for the traditional "whacka-whacka" scratch sound that it is more commonly associated. Wittlin uses timecoded vinyl on a standard turntable connected to a laptop running Serato software which enables him to play back (or sometimes subtly scratch) samples on his laptop that the band have prerecorded in their studio. These recordings are usually of local Bristol musicians. Wittlin's highly musical use of the turntable has been likened to that of Kid Koala.

Lund Quartet (album)
The band's self-titled début album was released on the 17th December 2011, and re-released on 24 September 2012. It is currently in the iTunes Store top 10 jazz charts in France. It received rave reviews, and has been played widely on national radio including BBC Radio 1 (Gilles Peterson) and Radio 3 (Late Junction) , and reached number 8 in the DMCWorld chart. The tracks Sequoia and Zill Bell were used in the BBC series Nature's Microworlds.

Credits
Recorded and Mixed at Lund Studios, Bristol in August 2011 Produced by Lund Quartet Engineered and Mixed by Benji Muscat Original artwork by David Lewis-Baker

Track listing
All tracks composed, arranged and performed by Lund Quartet.


 * 1) "Sequoia" – 4:53
 * 2) "Kulde" – 5:54
 * 3) "Love's Madness" – 4:07
 * 4) "Tulipan" – 5:32
 * 5) "Lonn" – 5:37
 * 6) "Merula" – 6:07
 * 7) "Zill Bell" – 8:46