Power of three
The trio Astraea (above left) was an important early sounding-board for many, and and performed on non-Western folk and Western instruments, has recently been reissued by the Divine Art label (; above). Astraea disbanded but reformed in the 1990s with a different line-up, and last year it performed with Gubaidulina, Suslin’s bass-playing son Alexander, bayan player Geir Draugsvoll and trombonist Heinz-Erich Gödecke.
