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Martin Archer: Making A Difference, Doing Things Differently

by Duncan Heining
July 10, 2013

Martin Archer is a one-man music industry. Saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, band-leader and label owner--Archer has made a virtue of doing things differently. From early beginnings in music forty years ago, he has built his label Discus into a catalog that is as fine in quality as it is eclectic in taste and content. Based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and far from London Jazz Central HQ, his career trajectory offers novel solutions to the problems facing the creative artist, from ...

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Radio Massacre International: Time & Motion

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 23, 2011

Torna il suono ibrido dei Radio Massacre International. Time & Motion è un doppio album uscito per la Cuneiform Records che aggiunge un tassello in più alla lunga storia del trio britannico dedito a improvvisazioni musicali fra a cavallo fra elettronica d'antan, jazz e rock. Dopo aver dato alle stampe oltre una trentina di album, fra lavori in studio, live e raccolte, la band con Time & Motion dimostra senza troppi imbarazzi che la prolificità con cui ha fin qui ...

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Julie Tippetts / Martin Archer: Ghosts Of Gold

Read "Ghosts Of Gold" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
September 27, 2009

British vocalist Julie Tippetts' teaming with eminent jazz-rock keyboardist Brian Auger dates back to the late 1960s, featuring her minor-classic covers of works by Bob Dylan and Donovan, among other little gems. Moving forward, she's become a prominent exponent of the European experimental circuit, largely enveloped within her homeland's free-jazz scene. With Ghosts Of Gold, she aligns with the always adventurous, avant-garde and free form artiste Martin Archer, here performing on an arsenal of keys, guitars, percussion instruments, woodwinds and ...

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Bass Tone Trap: Trapping

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 8, 2006

Dobbiamo a una piccola etichetta pugliese, la Music A La Coque, la meritoria ristampa di questo lavoro degli inglesi Bass Tone Trap, band formatasi a Sheffield nel 1981 e che si mise in luce grazie a una musica in cui free jazz, funk, punk, sperimentazione vengono coinvolte in un circolo danzante elettrico e infettivo, secondo coordinate che in quegli anni percorrevano anche James Chance e la no-wave negli States, i fervidi gruppi punk-funk nella stessa Inghilterra. Rileggendo oggi alcuni estratti ...