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Carlos Lopez-Real's Mandorla: Mandorla

by Chris May
April 27, 2009

Among the otherwise quite disparate assembly of musicians which makes up London's F-IRE collective and label, a shared sense of playfulness runs deep. Leading lights such as saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock and Finn Peters, guitarist Jonny Phillips, trumpeter and flugelhornist Tom Arthurs, cellist Ben Davis and drummer Seb Rochford--all seriously adventurous musicians--bring refreshing degrees of fun to even their most radical and exploratory work. Significantly in this regard, the “celebrity endorsement" which opens F-IRE's website homepage in spring 2009 is written ...