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Album Review

Jon Heilbron: Pieces for Chord Organs

Read "Pieces for Chord Organs" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
March 14, 2019

Although Australian double bassist Jon Heilbron had already accumulated an impressive CV for a player still in his twenties, the release of Pieces for Chord Organs marked the first album issued under his own name. His past releases consisted of one track on the Norwegian cassette compilation Nonfigurativ Musikk 11 (Nonfigurativ Musikk, 2016), the album Small Worlds (Tone List, 2017) as a member of the sextet Quiver, playing music by Austria's Werner Dafeldecker, and The Station and the Underclass (INSUB, ...

Album Review

Dominic Lash & Seth Cooke: Egregore

by John Eyles
April 22, 2018

Making their Intonema debut here, the occasional duo of Dominic Lash and Seth Cooke dates back to 2013. Egregore is their third album release, following PACT (1000 füssler, 2014) and Canary (Hideous Replica, 2015). However, anyone familiar with those releases and/or Lash's other work may be surprised by this new album as he does not play double bass at all here, opting instead for electronics throughout while Cooke is heard on cymbals and microphones. Their new label may be the ...

Album Review

Atolon: Concret

by John Eyles
February 2, 2013

Atolón is a Barcelona trio consisting of Ferran Fages and Alfredo Costa Monteiro--who, as a duo, are known as Cremaster--plus trumpeter Ruth Barberán. The single 35- minute track was recorded at Can Felipa, in Barcelona, in January 2011. Although recorded by Another Timbre proprietor Simon Reynell, the album is actually released on the St. Petersburg-based Intonema, despite Reynell's label previously having released recordings by the three, notably the excellent Lúnula (2009) by Octante, which is Atolón plus Portuguese double bassist ...