Breathing Heavy is the saxophone and sampler duo of Sam Andreae and Ciaran Mackle.
Ciaran Mackle is one half of long-running South London improv duo Ashcircle. Specialising in micro feral concrète and music to soundtrack the grinding and repetitive feeling of endless Tory rule. He explores a restricted sound palette, and what happens when language and discourse are squeezed so that all meaning and context is lost.
https://ashcircle.bandcamp.com/
Sam Andreae has been active across Europe over the last decade as a saxophonist, composer and organiser. Through improvisation and composition he explores a music of colliding sound gestures and aural detritus, built up from an intentionally fractured instrumental language and playful spontaneity. His compositions place a focus on gestural processes which in their unraveling reveal a trail of sound artefacts to be picked through.
https://samandreae.com/
“what Sam Andreae does is liminal music, he shows you the clicks, the noises, the breaths, the rattle and hum” – John Doran, Quietus, 2017 on BBC 3 Late Junction
