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Chick Corea and Gary Burton Bring 35th Anniversary Show to London
by John Eyles
Chick Corea and Gary Burton 35th Anniversary Crystal Silence TourBarbican CentreLondon, EnglandJune 30, 2007 As they took to the Barbican stage, they were announced as “Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Crystal Silence." This tour marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Corea and Burton first playing together. (As Burton told ...
Lola Perrin: Rave Music for Butterflies
by John Eyles
Born in New York (with Ukrainian and Hungarian roots), and educated in Switzerland, pianist Lola Perrin is now based in London. Following an early career producing soundtracks for television she went into a period of musical isolation until she launched her solo career in 2003. Ever since, she has attracted increasing attention across Europe as a ...
Allen Toussaint and Preservation Hall Jazz Orchestra in London
by John Eyles
Allen Toussaint and Preservation Hall Jazz Orchestra The Barbican London, England June 4th, 2007 They say it is an ill wind that blows no-one any good. Well, Hurricane Katrina was certainly one of the illest winds ever to blow through New Orleans, leaving the city ruined and many thousands ...
Bobby McFerrin in London, May 20-21
by John Eyles
Bobby McFerrin with LSO St. Luke's Community Choir Barbican Centre Residency London, England May 20-21, 2007 April in London was the hottest and driest on record. But May was something else: cool, grey and rainy. It felt like the end of a summer that wasn't. So by the ...
Fennesz Sakamoto: Cendre
by John Eyles
This album is the second release from Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, following their live 2005 EP, Sala Santa Cecilia. It builds on the promise shown there. Despite very different histories, Fennesz and Sakamoto have separately demonstrated an acute ear for popular music, Fennesz most notably on Endless Summer and Sakamoto repeatedly with Yellow Magic Orchestra.
Phil Minton Quartet: Slur
by John Eyles
This improvising quartet first came together in the mid '90s recording Mouthfull of Ecstasy (Victo, 1996), which was inspired by author James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. Although, vocalist Phil Minton has for decades performed with individual members of the quartet, and since 1996 has recorded fine duos with all of them, this is only their second ...
Sainkho Namchylak & Roy Carroll: Tuva-Irish Project
by John Eyles
If the collaboration between a Tuvan throat singer and an Irish laptop-ist sounds an unlikely combination, the end results fully justify the experiment; remarkably, the pairing works perfectly. The music here was developed over two years as Sainkho Namchylak and Roy Carroll explored ways to blend their music together in an improvised context. On ...
John Russell: Analekta
by John Eyles
This release features three duos recorded at John Russell's monthly Mopomoso concerts, plus a large ensemble captured at the Freedom of the City festival in 2006. Each of the duos finds the guitarist in the company of a player not often recorded--saxophonist Garry Todd, trumpeter Henry Lowther and saxophonist/percussionist Chefa Alonso--but all deserving wider exposure. Russell ...
Freedom of the City 2007
by John Eyles
Freedom of the City, the annual festival of radical and improvised music curated by Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost and Martin Davidson, returns over the May Bank holiday weekend, at the Red Rose club in Finsbury Park, north London. As in recent years, the music will be provided by an exciting mix of familiar favourites, lesser known ...
Various Artists: Freedom of the City 2006
by John Eyles
As the Freedom of the City 2007 festival draws near, here is a timely reminder of the quality of the music that can always be expected there. Although the three groupings here do not feature any “household names, they do contain many decades of experience at playing improvised music, and that is what shines through on ...
