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Eternal Triangle: Gravity
by Jack Kenny
What a coup on the part of Jazz in Britain to celebrate the launch of their new label with veteran Trevor Watts. It is a great experience listening to an eighty-five-year-old playing like an unshackled Ornette Coleman. Jazz in Britain has set up a new music imprint: Jazz Now. The first release is Gravity by Eternal Triangle. Watts is a phenomenon. Just listen and enjoy the surge of music from this new group. What a celebration of the ...
Continue ReadingVeryan Weston: Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs
by Alberto Bazzurro
Nativo della Cornovaglia (1950) ma trasferitosi a Londra poco più che ventenne (1972), Veryan Weston, generalmente dedito al pianoforte, si rivolge in questo tutto sommato singolare album all'organo a canne, riunendovi sette improvvisazioni di durate anche molto dissimili (dai 2'48" della prima ai 24 dell'ultima) effettuate in sette chiese e sette città diverse nel marzo 2014. Il clima che si respira in questa ora abbondante di musica è scuro, cogitabondo, abbastanza dispersivo nel suo sdipanarsi, praticamente privo ...
Continue ReadingVeryan Weston: Discoveries on Tracker Action Organs
by John Eyles
This new solo album from keyboardist Veryan Weston was recorded in May 2014 on tracker action organs in seven churches located around England. The recordings here document some of the preparatory research that Weston did ahead of a tour of churches with tracker action organs. That tour involved Weston plus violinist Jon Rose and cellist Hannah Marshall, so this album should be considered a companion piece to Tuning Out (Emanem, 2015), the album recorded on the tour. As ...
Continue ReadingVeryan Weston / Jon Rose / Hannah Marshall: Tuning Out
by John Eyles
There is a very interesting project awaiting some lucky (and patient) individual, researching the role that churches played in the spread of improvised music in Britain. To clear up any ambiguity, that “churches" refers to the buildings themselves rather than their human members. Any devotee of improvised music in Britain will probably have spent far more time in church than many (so-called) devout Christians, as churches are frequently used to host gigs and also as recording spaces. That has nothing ...
Continue ReadingVeryan Weston: Different Tesselations
by John Eyles
Different Tesselations must be considered as a companion piece to Tesselations for Luthéal Piano (Emanem 2003), the album on which Veryan Weston debuted his sequence of 52 closely linked pentatonic scales in a piece he called “Tesselations"--so named, he said, because it “contains structures which have, by coincidence, similarities with some of the principles of geometric tessellations." For the 2003 album, Weston recorded five pieces, each of which utilized from six to fourteen of the scales. He recorded the pieces ...
Continue ReadingVeryan Weston / Leo Svirsky / The Vociferous Choir: Different Tessellations
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In the realm of tessellations--the juxtaposition of elements into a coherent pattern--the only ones that could match Different Tessellations in terms of intrigue and seduction--composed by Veryan Weston and recorded here by prodigiously talented pianist Leo Svirsky and the Vociferous Choir--is Maurits C. Escher's Circle Limit III. The Escher is visual art at its finest, a tantalizing woodcut standing in all its maddening glory, against all other two- and three-dimensional art. But even this barely compares to Weston's musical vision, ...
Continue ReadingVeryan Weston: Allusions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Come insegnano i dizionari, “L'allusione è una figura retorica e consiste nell'uso di un sostantivo, spesso derivato da un fatto storico o comunemente noto, che abbia un rapporto di somiglianza con l'oggetto in questione. Esempi: 1) Allusione mitologica: “un labirinto" (un intrico di strade) - 2) Allusione storica: “vittoria di Pirro" (un successo ottenuto a caro prezzo) - 3) Allusione letteraria: “un don Abbondio" (un vigliacco)". In geometria piana, si dicono invece tassellature (talvolta tassellazioni o pavimentazioni) “i modi di ...
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