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by Claudio Bonomi
Tutta un'altra musica in casa Led Bib con i nuovi ingressi alla voci di Sharron Fortman, co-fondatrice della North Sea Radio Orchestra (ensemble che recentemente ha dato alle stampe Folly Bololey dove propone in compagnia di John Greaves e Annie Barbazza un'affascinante rilettura di Rock Bottom di Robert Wyatt), e di Jack Hues, conosciuto ai più per le gesta dei suoi Wang Chung negli anni Ottanta, ma anche fondatore, insieme al pianista Sam Bailey, dei sottovalutati e illuminati The Quartet ...
read moreLed Bib: Umbrella Weather
by Dan Bilawsky
When you're talking umbrella weather, there's rain and then there's rain. A drizzle and a downpour are two very different beasts, and this most certainly qualifies as the latter. Led Bib opens up the heavenly and hellish skies to create a deluge in sound on this terrifically tempestuous RareNoise date. Some bands born of radical designs tend to lose their edge over time, blunted and stunted by the individual and collective aging process, but Led Bib hasn't ...
read moreLed Bib: The People in Your Neighbourhood
by Claudio Bonomi
I Led Bib si confermano con questo album, il settimo della loro carriera iniziata nel 2003, compreso il live The Good Egg uscito sempre nel 2014 solo su vinile, come una delle formazioni più vispe della giovane e sempre più agitata scena jazz britannica insieme a gruppi come i Polar Bear, i Get The Blessing e gli ACV dell'ottimo Andy Champion. Capitanati dal batterista Mark Holub riescono a inanellare 11 composizioni originali dense di idee incendiarie come sono ...
read moreLed Bib: The People In Your Neighbourhood
by Bruce Lindsay
The People In Your Neighbourhood comes from Led Bib, “rock-jazzers" with a neat line in catchy grooves and prog-rock-meets-free-jazz. The London-based outfit, led by New Jersey ex-pat drummer Mark Holub, has been around for over a decade, gaining a Mercury Prize nomination for Sensible Shoes (Cuneiform Records, 2009). After a quiet couple of years since the release of Bring Your Own (Cuneiform Records, 2011), early 2014 sees a flurry of activity, with the simultaneous release on Cuneiform of The People ...
read moreLed Bib: It's Not Lady Gaga
by Bruce Lindsay
Led Bib: a short, sharp shock of a name for one of the hardest-hitting bands on the UK jazz scene. But the name doesn't tell the whole story, for this is also a band that's capable of inventive and intensely emotive music as well as the riff-laden numbers that have helped it to earn the label of “Punk Jazz," among others. In the runup to the release of the band's fifth album, Bring Your Own (Cuneiform, 2011), the band's amiable ...
read moreLed Bib: Bring Your Own
by Bruce Lindsay
Led Bib has never been an easy ensemble to pigeonhole: according to critics and reviewers the band is “punk jazz," free improvisation, avant-garde, skronk, dirty jazz--and, most splendidly, “death-jazz-cum-math-punk." On the evidence of the London-based band's fourth album, Bring Your Own, it's all of the above, and a little bit more. This is music for dancing, for head-banging, for thinking and even for quiet reflection. Led Bib's founder and main writer is New Jersey native Mark Holub, ...
read moreLed Bib: Bring Your Own
by Chris May
Writing about Led Bib's Mercury Prize-nominated album, the raucous and confrontational Sensible Shoes (Cuneiform, 2009), Britain's Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper--which speaks with as much authority about jazz as Murdoch's Fox News speaks about politics--declared: “Led Bib are the band bringing jazz back to contemporary music's cutting edge." A slightly more measured response came from the Guardian's jazz critic, who described the album as “a gale of fresh air." All About Jazz observed that “the band continues its mission ...
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