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Elliot Galvin: Modern Times
by Vincenzo Roggero
Elliot Galvin, a soli ventotto anni, sta emergendo come cristallino talento tra i numerosi pianisti sfornati nel corso degli ultimi anni dalla Gran Bretagna. Membro chiave dei Dinosaur di Laura Jurd, autore con The Influencing Machine di un album considerato da Downbeat tra i migliori del 2018, Galvin licenzia questo Modern Times ancora con il medesimo trio. Ma con un'idea ben precisa in mente: abbandonare la mano pesante della produzione che aveva caratterizzato l'album precedente, registrarlo senza mixaggio e senza ...
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by Roger Farbey
Following on from Dreamland (2015, Chaos Collective), Punch (Edition, 2016) and The Influencing Machine (Edition, 2018), Elliot Galvin's fourth album is a departure from the previous two. Here he abandons his electronic gadgetry in favour of pure acoustic instrumentation. This was a deliberate move on Galvin's part since the inspiration for album derived from witnessing a solo piano concert in Montreux by Jason Moran. Unusually, Modern Times was recorded and mixed “live" straight to vinyl in one session with no ...
Continue Reading12 Points 2018
by Ian Patterson
12 Points 2018 The Sugar Club Dublin, Ireland September 5-8, 2018 Returning to its spiritual home of Dublin after back-to-back editions in San Sebastian and Aarhus, 12 Points 2018 marks one of the highpoints of the Irish musical year. Its appeal lies not just in the fact that it brings together twelve bands from twelve countries, after all, many festivals can boats similar geographical reach, but rather in its spirit of adventurous.
Continue ReadingElliot Galvin: The Influencing Machine
by Roger Farbey
The Influencing Machine is a concept album based on the book of the same name by Mike Jay. This true account tells the story of James Tilley-Matthews, a tea merchant and double agent, architect and political thinker. Born in 1770, Tilley- Matthews was renowned not just for his various and varied professional activities, but more because he was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was controlled by a machine that he coined an air loom. Committed to Bethlem psychiatric hospital ...
Continue ReadingElliot Galvin Trio: Punch
by Roger Farbey
Punch is the follow-up to British pianist Elliot Galvin's debut album Dreamland, released in 2014 and his first for Edition Records. The title track opens with an ancient recording of a Punch and Judy show which forms a recurring leitmotif within the number and at a few other points throughout the album. The ensuing trio's performance contains all the vituperative attack of Mr Punch, replete with fascinating staccato interludes of interspersed and alternating bouts of silence, the Punch recording and ...
Continue ReadingElliot Galvin Trio: Dreamland
by Roger Farbey
From the jokey toy piano start of “Ism" to the aborted boogie woogie of “Blues" where Galvin introduces a reflective change of mood, introducing a luxuriant chord-rich theme, it's patently obvious that this is no ordinary piano trio album. The pastoral “A Major" for example, one of the less frenetic tracks, nonetheless contains its own intriguing meanderings. This contrasts sharply with the succeeding, feistier “J.J." which is propelled by an insistent bass and drum-led rhythm. The sparse ...
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