Home » Search Center » Results: John Eyles
Results for "John Eyles"
Anthony Braxton: Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Volume 4
by John Eyles
Recorded over five days in August 1997 at Yoshi's in Oakland, California this recording is from the early phase of reed player/composer Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music (GTM) period. Originally planned to be released as a 12-CD box set on Braxton's own (now dormant) Braxton House label, these ninetet recordings have instead slowly emerged, two discs ...
Toshimaru Nakamura / Lucio Capece: Ij
by John Eyles
On paper, “no input mixing board (the output from the board is connected directly to the input, creating an electronic feedback loop) sounds like an unpromising instrument to play; at best very limited, at worst a non-event. Surprisingly, in the hands of its pioneer, Toshimaru Nakamura, it has become a seemingly limitless source of rich sounds ...
Steve Noble / John Edwards / Alan Wilkinson: Obliquity
by John Eyles
Just reading the lineup of this release started the adrenalin pumping and the pulse racing. All three are exciting, high-energy players who give their all every time they play. And here they are, together as a trio for the first time on disc. Although it is a match made in heaven, it ...
Trio of Uncertainty: Unlocked
by John Eyles
Trio of Uncertainty, which is Quintet of Uncertainty minus the reeds and percussion, plays its music on violin, cello and piano without amplification or other electronics--a comparatively rare phenomenon for improvised music these days. Certainly it will be the unadorned sound of the trio plus their musical syntax that immediately strikes listeners, and which has the ...
Pascal Marzan & Roger Smith: Two Spanish Guitars
by John Eyles
Everything about this release has a disarming sense of honesty about it. From the no-nonsense statement of its title, an echo of Roger Smith's earlier solo album on Emanem, Spanish Guitar (2002), to the separation of the two guitars that allows us to hear who is doing what, to the clean clarity of the recording, it ...
Angharad Davies / Tisha Mukarji: Endspace
by John Eyles
Endspace is the debut release for this duo. For some time, Angharad Davies and Tisha Mukarji have been two of the most distinctive young improvisers performing on the UK scene, but they have not been adequately represented on disc. This release starts to remedy the situation, and so is particularly welcome. The combination ...
Aufgehoben: Counter-Intuition
by John Eyles
Aufgehoben is a band that defies categorization, a band unlike any other; its music is freely improvised, with only the sketchiest of plans being agreed upon in advance. And yet its music ends up sounding a million miles away from improv, and even further from jazz. The reasons are twofold: the sound, which is pumped-up, full-on ...
Paul Rutherford: Two Discs, One Future Classic
by John Eyles
These two contrasting releases, with music dating from 1972 and 1993, are both in memory of Paul Rutherford, trombonist extraordinaire, who died suddenly in August 2007. In his sleeve notes to the solo release, Emanem label proprietor (and longtime Rutherford admirer) Martin Davidson observes, “I have never understood why interest in artists seems to ...
Mersault: Raymond & Marie
by John Eyles
Literary allusions from musicians are always intriguing and lead to speculation about their motives. Although Samuel Beckett and James Joyce are perennial musicians' favorites, Albert Camus is less often cited... although The Cure's “Killing an Arab lives long in the memory. If the group name Mersault could be taken as a reference to Camus, then the ...
John Butcher: The Geometry of Sentiment
by John Eyles
A new John Butcher solo album always sends a shiver of anticipation down the spine. Given Butcher's impressive track record as a solo explorer, any new release is sure to contain stimulating, exciting music. And so it proves here, with 2007's The Geometry of Sentiment. This music comes from five different dates between November 2004 and ...
