Secret Keeper, aka Vijay Iyer/Rosetta trio bassist Stephan Crump and guitarist Mary Halvorson, release a new album later this month.

Nine tracks in all with slightly oblique titles each running between just over three and a half minutes and the longest clocking it at just over seven, written separately by the pair, Emerge, which comes out on 30 March, actually opens a little counterintuitively given the avant nature of the duo with an Irving Berlin tune ‘What’ll I Do,’ a 1920s song the Paul Whiteman orchestra did an early version of and Sarah Vaughan did this with in the 1960s:

Sitcom viewers will also know the song, more intimately given its subliminal ubiquity than they might readily like to admit, as the theme music of yes Birds of a Feather. I haven’t heard Secret Keeper’s version of the song but it is safe to assume it will not remotely resemble the TV theme version.

Recorded in June 2013 in Brooklyn the album is issued by the Swiss avant label Intakt. The Secret Keeper photo top is by Reuben Radding. SG