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Iskra 1903: Goldsmiths
by John Eyles
The years 2010 and 2011 have already been a bumper period for re-releases of '70s improvised music--notably Emanem's Teatime and Life amid the artefacts--plus unreleased Derek Bailey (on More 74, Concert in Milwaukee and Scrutables). Now, after some delay, comes Goldsmiths, which could well be the pick of the bunch. It consists of a 67-minute live ...
Fourth Page: Blind Horizons
by John Eyles
Blind Horizons is the second album of 2011 from Fourth Page, the rapid follow-up to its debut, Along the Weak Rope, released on Forwind in May. Fourth Page consists of vocalist and guitarist Charlie Beresford, pianist Carolyn Hume, bassist Peter Marsh and drummer Paul May. There are long-standing links between Hume, May and Marsh. May has ...
Barrel: Gratuitous Abuse
by John Eyles
The release of Gratuitous Abuse by Barrel--the trio of violinist Alison Blunt, violinist/violist Ivor Kallin and cellist Hannah Marshall--is a welcome continuation of two ongoing trends in improvised music. First, it adds to the impressive series of Emanem CDs by ensembles consisting solely of improvising string players, joining an illustrious list that already includes Arc (2009), ...
Evan Parker's Psi Label Celebrates First Ten Years
by John Eyles
November 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of saxophonist Evan Parker's Psi label. Its first release, the fine Parker solo album Lines Burnt in Light, was recorded on October 11 2001 and released within a month of recording. In the following decade, the label released a total of 83 CD's of which 14 were re-releases including 13 ...
Great Waitress: Lucid
by John Eyles
In January 2009, Berlin-based pianist Magda Mayas played with the Australian duo of accordionist Monika Brooks and clarinetist Laura Altman at Sydney's Now now Festival. At the start of 2011, the three came together--by now under the name Great Waitress--to again play the festival plus some other gigs before recording Lucid at Sydney's Linear recording studio, ...
RED Trio + John Butcher: Empire
by John Eyles
It is an interesting comment on the state of improvised music across Europe that Empire is performed by a Portuguese trio joined by an English saxophonist, released on a Lithuanian record label, pressed in Germany. Studio-recorded in Lisbon in April 2010, Empire has been released on 12" vinyl in a limited edition, housed in a very ...
Derek Bailey: Concert in Milwaukee and Scrutables
by John Eyles
Remarkably, over five years after his death on Christmas Day 2005, these two recordings by guitarist Derek Bailey--one dating from 1983, the other from 2000--have never before been properly released. In a 2001 interview, Bailey spoke in typically jocular fashion about the number of neglected tapes that were about in his house in Hackney, London. Of ...
WorldService Project: Relentless
by John Eyles
Formed in 2009, and winner of the Peter Whittingham Jazz Award in 2010, WorldService Project rapidly established itself as a popular live act in London and across Britain, before branching out onto continental Europe with gigs in Norway and Germany. Its debut, Relentless, demonstrates that this is a band on a roll.The quintet has ...
Craig Hilton and Tomas Phillips: Le gout de neant
by John Eyles
According to its sleeve notes, the opening track of Le goût de néant, “Sans mouvement I," is a studio recording of Craig Hilton playing solo guzheng, a multi-stringed Chinese zither with movable bridges. This is remarkable, as it does not sound like one person playing a solo instrument; the resonances produced by the guzheng create the ...
Francois Carrier / Alexey Lapin / Michel Lambert: Inner Spire
by John Eyles
For Inner Spire, his fourth release on Leo records, Montreal-based alto saxophonist François Carrier performs with a new trio, retaining his long-standing collaborator Michel Lambert on drums and replacing double-bass with piano, played by Alexey Lapin. Recorded at the DOM Cultural Centre in Moscow in December 2010, the album's five tracks were entirely improvised. That is ...
