STRATA

We are delighted to present our debut Album Strata

Whether the subject is geology, oceanography, meteorology or sociology, a stratum is a layer that is distinguished in some way from the layers below it and above it. Defined by these upper and lower boundaries – created through changes such as sedimentary deposits, sunlight penetration, atmospheric pressure or social class – a stratum can only be understood as such by digging, diving or ascending on a perpendicular axis. It’s that perpendicular movement that makes a stratum what it is, that identifies it as something different from what lies above or below.

This debut CD by the Laefer Quartet is organised around a movement up through physical strata, from under the ground to the heavens above.

Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Strata Liner Notes