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Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: Artificial Life

Read "Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: Artificial Life" reviewed by Duncan Heining


The importance of ensembles such as the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra cannot be underestimated. Their work since their formation defines a distinctive approach to large-scale, free improvisation rooted in a well-defined philosophy of collective music-making. As George Lewis, trombonist and 'composer' of Artificial Life, remarks in the record's sleevenotes: “As with all improvisation, including our ...

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Separately and together

Label: Emanem
Released: 2008
Track listing: Impro Intro; On the Point of Influence; PW to AW; Study for Oppy Wood; AW to AB; Hive Life; Too late, too late, it's ever so late; Seven Sisters (for Barry Guy); Stagione; Big ideas, images and distorted facts; 811 Joint Response; 1 + 1 = Different; Outlaw.

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London and Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra: Separately and together

Read "Separately and together" reviewed by John Eyles


Recorded at the 2007 Freedom of the City Festival, the album features the London Improvisers Orchestra and its Glasgow counterpart. (Guest performers are a fine tradition at FOTC.) The LIO did a set, then the GIO and then they played together. Given the number of musicians involved, and the absence of rehearsal, listeners will be surprised ...


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