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Vladislav Delay, Eyebrow, and Iain Ballamy's Food at Union Chapel, London
by John Eyles
Vladislav Delay, Eyebrow and Food Union Chapel London, UK November 12, 2009 This triple bill was a very 21st century affair. It could have been subtitled “Humans and Machines," so prevalent was the use of electronics throughout the evening of improvised music. Vladislav Delay was at the center of ...
SLW: Fifteen point nine grams
by John Eyles
Recorded live in France in July 2007, this is the second release from SLW, the follow-up to its debut, SLW (Formed, 2008), recorded live in October 2006. The quartet, with its line-up of Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies and Toshimaru Nakamura, merits the title “super group"; however outmoded and gauche that phrase may seem, it ...
Stellari String Quartet: Gocce Stellari
by John Eyles
Over the years, Emanem has nobly championed the cause of improvising string players. Back in 2001, the label released the groundbreaking triple CD Strings with Evan Parker on which the majority of tracks actually featured strings without Parker's sax. Before that came Kent Carter's's string trio of bass, violin and viola. More recently, Emanem has released ...
Andrea Neumann: Pappelallee 5
by John Eyles
On the surface, the recording of this half-hour long piece by Andrea Neumann on inside piano should have been easy. Had it been recorded in a recording studio, it would have been and the end result would be very different to what's presented here. Instead of a studio, Neumann opted to work on it in her ...
Another Timbre Byways: CD-R Improv Diaries
by John Eyles
Since its inception Another Timbre has regularly released low-priced CD-Rs (on its Byways imprint) to supplement its main CD catalogue. The label has used its latest batch of CD-Rs to document musicians living in or passing through London in March and April of 2009, so they function as a kind of audio diary or sketchbook. The ...
Rhodri Davies / Michel Doneda / Louisa Martin / Phil Minton / Lee Patterson: Midhopestones
by John Eyles
This album was recorded in January 2009 in the church of St. James the Lesser, in the village of Midhopestones near Sheffield, South Yorkshire--hence, its intriguingly uplifting title (incidentally, its track titles refer to other villages or features nearby). Maybe that recording location explains the sense of tranquility and beauty that pervades the music here. It ...
Keith Rowe: One Bird Flying Through
by John Eyles
In early June 2009, multi-instrumentalist Keith Rowe made one of his rare visits to London to play a concert at Cafe Oto as part of Another Timbre's Unnamed Music Festival in a trio with saxophonists Martin Kuchen and Seymour Wright, before heading north to Leeds to play another set the following evening with the same trio. ...
Tom Chant / Angharad Davies / Benedict Drew / John Edwards: Decentred
by John Eyles
When the Another Timbre label was launched in autumn 2007, proprietor Simon Reynell expressed his desire to release contemporary composition alongside improvised music, with the understandable proviso that it was more expensive to release. To date, the label's releases have been dominated by improvised music. There was a fine release of compositions by Frank Denyer, played ...
Narthex: Formnction
by John Eyles
Narthex Formnction Potlatch Records 2009 The music on Formnction was produced using unusual experimental methods. The process is described by Narthex--saxophonist Marc Baron and bassist Loic Blairon--in a useful introductory sleeve note. It's worth reading: “(1) We record six improvised pieces of 30 minutes each, in ...
Improvisation from Barcelona: Agusti Fernandez and Octante
by John Eyles
Albums by pianist Agusti Fernandez and the group Octante (as well as the concurrent release of Barcelona Chronicles by guitarist Derek Bailey) provide a timely opportunity to celebrate the dynamic improvised music scene of Barcelona, Spain. The profile of the city's improvisers has steadily grown in recent years, not least because of the work of IBA ...
