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Jason Kahn & Tim Olive: Two Sunrise
by John Eyles
For those familiar with the two previous releases on Tim Olive's own 845 Audio imprint, the release of Two Sunrise will hold few surprises. As before, its brown chipboard sleeve is adorned with basic graphics and information, giving it a “cottage industry" feel--no bad thing as it follows a noble tradition created by such musician-run labels ...
Laurence Crane: Composer of the Year?
by John Eyles
Laurence Crane is a contemporary composer who was born in Oxford in 1961. He has said of his music, “I use simple and basic musical objects-- common chords and intervals, arpeggios, drones, cadences, fragments of scales and melodies. The materials may seem familiar, perhaps even rather ordinary, but my aim is to find a fresh beauty ...
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem
by John Eyles
The music on the double CD Tandem (remastered) was all previously available on two single Emanem CDs, Tandem 1 and Tandem 2, released in 1996. They have now been withdrawn and replaced by this release. In the process the music has been programmed in a more sensible order and, as the album title highlights, the sound ...
Skogen: Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long
by John Eyles
With their previous two Another Timbre releases, Ist Gefallen In Den Schnee (2012) and Rows (2013), Magnus Granberg's large international ensemble Skogen established themselves as purveyors of exquisitely-played spacious music, that transcends the composition-improvisation border and makes beguilingly beautiful listening. On the 2012 album, a nine-member version of the group played a one-hour-plus rendition of Granberg's ...
Steve Lacy: Avignon and After Volume 2
by John Eyles
In 2012, Emanem released Avignon and After Volume 1 which consisted of re-released and previously unreleased tracks from the late great soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's first solo concerts, at Avignon in 1972, plus previously unreleased tracks recorded live in Berlin in 1974. It was an excellent and valuable addition to the Lacy discography. Teasingly, its sleeve ...
Sergio Merce: Microtonal Saxophone
by John Eyles
Microtonal Saxophone is the latest in an impressive lineage of innovative and experimental saxophone recordings released by Potlatch. It follows in the footsteps of such groundbreaking albums as Bertrand Denzler's Tenor (2010), the free sax quartet Propagations (2007) and Stéphane Rives's Fibres (2003), among others. Unlike such players, who redefined what could be played on a ...
Barb Jungr: Hard Rain (The Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen)
by John Eyles
Ever since Barb Jungr released her first album of Bob Dylan songs, Every Grain of Sand (Linn, 2002), she has been consistently praised as a Dylan interpreter par excellence. Each of her subsequent albums has included at least one Dylan song--she even included a couple each on her tribute albums to Elvis Presley and Nina Simone. ...
N.E.W.: Motion
by John Eyles
Together for over a decade, and having released two previous albums on the Bo' Weavil label, N.E.W.--the trio of drummer Steve Noble, bassist John Edwards and Alex Ward on electric guitar--need no introduction. They have nothing left to prove. Live and on disc they have shown that they are a force to be reckoned with--tight, energetic ...
Two Intonema Releases: Lucio Capece and Vile Cretin
by John Eyles
The Intonema label released its first CDs in 2011 and has maintained a steady stream of noteworthy releases since, the current pair bringing the total to ten. One of the more remarkable features of Intonema is that it is a Russian label, based in St Petersburg--surely a measure of how far the world has evolved since ...
The Founder Effect Signals That Treader Is Alive And Well!
by John Eyles
The Treader label released its first CDs in late 2004. The label's distinctive Frauke Stegmann-designed sleeves, featuring embossed gold pictures of animals on plain backgrounds, made them instantly recognisable and collectable design classics. Rather than singly, the label always put out releases in series of three, the animals of each series sometimes being connected--mammals or birds, ...
