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Alex Ward Item 4: Furthered

Read "Furthered" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
February 24, 2023

Is there anyone else who doubles on clarinet and electric guitar? Multi-instrumentalist Eliot Sharp perhaps, but it is an otherwise fairly exclusive arena, one which Alex Ward has occupied since 1989 when he was already performing with Derek Bailey's Company at age 15. While the guitar remains his axe of choice for the rockier end of ...

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Dominic Lash, Alex Ward: Antonyms

by John Sharpe
January 30, 2023

Can an album's contents be any less summed up by its title? While Antonyms suggests opposition, the collaboration between bassist Dominic Lash and clarinetist & guitarist Alex Ward evidences rather more empathy than contradiction. That is unsurprising given regular appearances in each other's bands as well as collective arenas going back at least to Barkingside (FMR, ...

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Antonyms

By Dominic Lash

Label: Copepod Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Recap; Ballast; Gegenwort; Unfriendly Manoeuvre; Right Shoes.

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Colin Fisher / Mike Gennaro: Tactile Stories

Read "Tactile Stories" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 1, 2022

Does the world need another free jazz duo recording? Absolutely not, unless (dammit) it is as intoxicating as Tactile Stories by the Canadian duo of Colin Fisher and Mike Gennaro. Fisher's talents are spread across both the saxophone, which he hoists for three tracks, and electric guitar heard on the final “Epinoia." Elsewhere, he can be ...

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Dominic Lash / Pat Thomas: New Oxford Brevity

Read "New Oxford Brevity" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
October 6, 2022

Although Dominic Lash and Pat Thomas are frequent visitors to London and regularly gig there in a variety of contexts, for each of them Oxford seems a greater attraction than the capital, even though Lash now lives in Bristol rather than Oxford where he studied. The two first played together—Lash on bass guitar, Thomas on piano—on ...

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Gated

By Alex Ward

Label: Discus Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Heat Patch; The Celebrated Restriction; Let; Buyout; Hewn; Stilled; Cushioned; Brow; The Bradford Factor; Maybe It’ll Break The Heat.

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Distinctions

By Dominic Lash

Label: Spoonhunt
Released: 2021
Track listing: distinctions

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Limulus

By Dominic Lash

Label: Spoonhunt
Released: 2021
Track listing: Alexithymia; Cylindrical; Dactyloscopy; From a theme by F.S.; Isthmus; Improvisation/Structures

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Alex Ward: Gated

by Glenn Astarita
November 25, 2021

British multi-instrumentalist Alex Ward plays everything but the kitchen sink on this thrilling solo effort, where he plays guitar, woodwinds, keys, electric bass and uses various software-based mechanisms, including drums. Well-known as a free improviser, the artist fuses electro parts with peppery horns choruses, wily solos on several instruments, jumbling drum patterns and clamorous distortion-laced guitar ...

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Dominic Lash Quartet: Limulus

by John Sharpe
August 26, 2021

The third outing from British bassist Dominic Lash's Quartet continues in the vein of its predecessors, Opabinia (Babellabel, 2013) and Extremophile (Iluso, 2017), in respect of its eclecticism, but if anything is even more cohesive and successful as a result. Lash's crew remains unchanged comprising Alex Ward on electric guitar, and the Spanish pairing of Ricardo ...