Lee Noyes

"Every gesture is prudent and well-placed. Sticks, knuckles, brushes, fingertips, rubber balls, eraser-on-paper emulations etc. join skin and metal, Noyes analyzing all areas of his drum and cymbal with creative kindness/coercion... With extreme simplicity, intimacy at its most familiar and acute patience, Noyes... craft(s) intrigue." Dave Madden - The Squid's Ear

"Noyes manages to balance the tensions between sounds, noises and notes, by sprinkling a few short, sensitive melodic phrases or disseminating the rubbing and scraping wood and strings of his piano, in a territory that hesitates between the parentage of John Tilbury and Magda Mayas." Julien Héraud - Improv Sphere

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"Every gesture is prudent and well-placed. Sticks, knuckles, brushes, fingertips, rubber balls, eraser-on-paper emulations etc. join skin and metal, Noyes analyzing all areas of his drum and cymbal with creative kindness/coercion... With extreme simplicity, intimacy at its most familiar and acute patience, Noyes... craft(s) intrigue." Dave Madden - The Squid's Ear

"Noyes manages to balance the tensions between sounds, noises and notes, by sprinkling a few short, sensitive melodic phrases or disseminating the rubbing and scraping wood and strings of his piano, in a territory that hesitates between the parentage of John Tilbury and Magda Mayas." Julien Héraud - Improv Sphere

"Noyes, the free-improv percussionist, folds and subsumes his contributions into the whole." Jesse Goin - Crow With No Mouth

"Noyes utilized his famous mini-sized kit, this time stripped back to absolute bare boner. What occurred was simply gorgeous – Noyes mirrored the chatter and crunch of radio by stretching drum-skins, scraping and sucking, blowing and shuttling, his kit transforms into an ululating backdrop... There is a delerium to this performance. And I don't think any one else would have had the imagination and responsive sensitivity to make it work." Matt Middleton - La Décennie Brut

"History feels challenged... very tense, angular work that succeeds through its own awkwardness and ability to sound unlike much else I have heard in a while." Richard Pinnell - The Watchful Ear

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