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Lol Coxhill / Charles Hayward / Hugh Hopper / Orphy Robinson: Clear Frame

by John Kelman
February 17, 2008

Bassist Hugh Hopper and multi-instrumentalist Robert Wyatt have intersected on a number of occasions since playing in legendary British group Soft Machine nearly forty years ago, but they've rarely worked together in as free and experimental a context as Clear Frame. This improvisational collective features, along with the intrepid Hopper, the equally fearless Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboards) and Orphy Robinson (vibes, steel pan, percussion). Wyatt's guest appearance on several of these all-improvised tracks is an inspired ...