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Phil Minton Quartet: Slur
by John Eyles
This improvising quartet first came together in the mid '90s recording Mouthfull of Ecstasy (Victo, 1996), which was inspired by author James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. Although, vocalist Phil Minton has for decades performed with individual members of the quartet, and since 1996 has recorded fine duos with all of them, this is only their second ...
John Russell: Analekta
by John Eyles
This release features three duos recorded at John Russell's monthly Mopomoso concerts, plus a large ensemble captured at the Freedom of the City festival in 2006. Each of the duos finds the guitarist in the company of a player not often recorded--saxophonist Garry Todd, trumpeter Henry Lowther and saxophonist/percussionist Chefa Alonso--but all deserving wider exposure. Russell ...
Phil Minton Quartet: Slur
by Nic Jones
Phil Minton is virtually alone in blazing a trail for the male vocalist in freely improvised music and this is one of his very infrequent outings as a group leader. In his notes for the accompanying booklet he refers to having toyed with the idea of singing words on this disc. The fact that he could ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Frameworks
by Nic Jones
All of the freely improvised music collected here is previously unissued and, to the best of my knowledge, only the duo of percussionist John Stevens and reed player Trevor Watts has been extensively documented on record before now, notably on Face To Face (Emanem, 1973). The duo is featured on “Flower here. The piece was recorded ...
Terry Day: 2006 Duos
by Nic Jones
These five duo performances captured for posterity all involve first-time partnerships for Terry Day, although he has worked with some of the musicians in different settings in the past. He has a perhaps unique claim to be the only musician working in the field of free improvisation who concentrates on bamboo pipes as his means for ...
Lol Coxhill: More Together Than Alone
by Nic Jones
In an ideal world Lol Coxhill would be far more widely celebrated than he is, and even in the world as it is he's a soprano saxophonist with an instrumental vocabulary every bit as rich and distinctive as that of the late Steve Lacy. Equally to his credit is the fact that he has recorded in ...
Adam Bohman & Roger Smith: Reality Fandango
by Nic Jones
Roger Smith has, in common with other guitarists mining this seam of free improvisation, worked beyond the perhaps pervasive influence of Derek Bailey. Such are the dry, dynamically constricted soundscapes he fashions here in company with violinist Adam Bohman that a distinct instrumental vocabulary emerges. The music as such is documentation of a work in progress, ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2006
by John Eyles
As the Freedom of the City 2007 festival draws near, here is a timely reminder of the quality of the music that can always be expected there. Although the three groupings here do not feature any “household names, they do contain many decades of experience at playing improvised music, and that is what shines through on ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence
by John Eyles
After releasing this music on two LPs and then on two CDs, Emanem now re-release it on a double CD. In the process, the performances are put into a more sensible order. The vast bulk of their 1974 ICA concert (seventy-five out of the eight-five minutes) is now together on one CD. This concert featured the ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Frameworks
by John Eyles
Increasingly, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble recordings released on Emanem (which now number ten CDs, not including Spontaneous Music Orchestra releases) resemble the pieces of a large and intricate jigsaw puzzle. The recordings span some twenty-eight years, at least twenty-five recording occasions ("sessions not being the appropriate word) and numerous line-ups--John Stevens being the only ever-present participant. ...
