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Derek Bailey: Barcelona Chronicles
by John Eyles
Barcelona Chronicles is the collective title for two Incus DVDs and one CD which document guitarist Derek Bailey playing on three occasions in Barcelona between February 2004 and May 2005. Bailey had moved there from Hackney, London, in 2003. During the spring of 2004, he began experiencing muscular difficulties; in June 2004 he dropped his plectrum ...
Ornette Coleman's Meltdown is the Best Ever
by John Eyles
Ornette Coleman's Meltdown London June 12-21, 2009 Ever since it was announced in late March that Ornette Coleman was to curate the 2009 Meltdown festival at the South Bank, Coleman seemed to dominate the capital. The festival's trademark image of a young Coleman soulfully eyeballing the camera was everywhere, on ...
Ami Yoshida / Toshimaru Nakamura: Soba to Bara
by John Eyles
Over the past decade Japanese Onkyo musicians such as vocalist Ami Yoshida, no-input mixing board player Toshimaru Nakamura, Sachiko M, Taku Unami and Otomo Yoshihide have had a profound effect on improvisers outside Japan, as far away as London, Berlin and USA. Albums by such musicians and their collaborators have been common among the releases from ...
Peter Evans: Nature/Culture
by John Eyles
Peter Evans' previous solo album, More is More (Psi, 2006), began an unbroken sequence of releases that demonstrates why the trumpeter is increasingly regarded with a mixture of awe and wonder. That solo album was followed by his debut as a leader, The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12, 2007) and Check for Monsters (Emanem, 2009), featuring ...
EKG: Electricals
by John Eyles
Electricals is the fourth album by the EKG duo of Kyle Bruckmann and Ernst Karel (EKG stands for the Ernst and Kyle Group). It follows Group (Formed, 2006), their collaboration with Giuseppe Ielasi in which the three integrated analogue electronics and acoustic instruments into a coherent whole, giving the electronics a remarkable feeling of humanity and ...
People Band: 69/79
by John Eyles
This double-CD is the follow-up to 1968 (Transatlantic, 1970; reissued Emanem, 2004), People Band's only previous album. Where that album featured the band's first generation of players, 69/70 represents its second generation. 69/70 comes after tireless salvage work by Terry Day and Martin Davidson on tapes recorded in a Soho studio, at jam sessions at Mel ...
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: No Now Is So
by John Eyles
Pianist Alexander Hawkins is one of the brightest rising young stars of British jazz and improvisation, amply demonstrated by his work in Barkingside, the Convergence Quartet, and the Evan Parker Quartet. Hawkins has technique in abundance and a brain quick enough to make creative use of it. With no obvious stylistic antecedents, he excels in a ...
New Rhodri Davies on Another Timbre
by John Eyles
Since 2000, harpist and electronicist Rhodri Davies has evolved continuously. He has metamorphosed from an extraordinary harpist--equally comfortable playing classical music, contemporary compositions or freely improvising--into an exploratory and innovative musician who continually extends the range of his playing and the language of his instrument. Davies has happily extended his technique by deploying preparations, playing tabletop ...
Lawrence Casserley / Adam Linson: Integument
by John Eyles
Lawrence Casserley and Adam Linson have well-established links with Evan Parker and with each other. Both have previous releases on Psi and since 2004 both have been members of Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. That is highly relevant to the music on Integument as that ensemble features real-time processing of sound, as does this album. On his solo ...
Sophie Agnel: Capsizing Moments
by John Eyles
Sophie Agnel plays prepared piano, although she herself prefers to speak of “extensive piano." Her preparations evolve during the course of her playing as, inside the piano, she adds, moves or removes such objects as disposable water cups, foil ashtrays, bouncing balls and nylon fishing line. This CD was recorded live in concert at Les Instants ...
