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7ft._Konka
by John Eyles
Artists: Michael Renkel & Sonja Bender 7ft._Konka Absinth 2006 This forty minute DVD, recorded live in Berlin, pairs Sonja Bender's video sampling with Michael Renkel's guitar and electronics. Despite decades of rock videos, the pairing of improvised music with images is still in its infancy, particularly if the ...
Iskra 1903: Chapter Two: 1981-3
by John Eyles
This is only the third triple CD set ever released by Emanem--and two of the three are by Iskra 1903. Chapter One: 1970-1972 focussed on the first edition of Iskra, with Derek Bailey, Barry Guy and Paul Rutherford. The second incarnation of the group replaced Bailey with Philipp Wachsmann and ran from 1977 until 1995. (A ...
Lola Perrin: Fragile Light
by John Eyles
Lola Perrin's second album expands on the success of her debut, Perpetual Motion (Blue Planet, 2004), incorporating its Perpetual Motion Piano Suite III, plus two other suites. That use of “suites may suggest that Perrin's music has affinities with classical piano music, and indeed she has drawn comparisons with Schubert, Debussy and Ravel--comparisons which she gladly ...
The Treecreepers: At The Mill
by John Eyles
Ian R. Watson and Pete Flood--otherwise known as the Treecreepers--are regular performers on the London scene, and have played with a staggering array of different players in a range of styles. As the Treecreepers, they perform as an improvising duo and also, with guests such as Steve Beresford, Ashley Wales and Rhodri Davies, in the expanded ...
EKG & Giuseppe Ielasi: Group
by John Eyles
Some combinations of “real instruments and electronics starkly highlight extreme contrasts between the two; some uses of electronics produce music that is dehumanising and alienating. At the right time and place, both of these tendencies can be very engaging, if very demanding--however, they are rarely a great deal of fun, nor are they intended to be. ...
Adrian Klumpes: Be Still
by John Eyles
Adrian Klumpes is the keyboard player of the Sydney-based trio Triosk, which recently released The Headlight Serenade, but on this debut solo album he presents a very different face to the one he displayed in the trio. Recorded in one five-hour session in Klumpes' native Sydney, Be Still is perfectly--but ambiguously--titled. At times the music is ...
Triosk: The Headlight Serenade
by John Eyles
The Headlight Serenade is Triosk's third CD release, the group's second on the Leaf Label. Doubtless both parties are getting a little tired of the ongoing comparisons between Triosk and the Necks. (Yes, it does sound too easy--both trios, both Sydney-based Australian, both improvisers, ho hum--maybe even lazy journalism.) But the repeated piano figure at the ...
Howard Riley: Two is One
by John Eyles
Howard Riley is one of those musicians that we (those of us in the UK, that is) too easily take for granted. If he were flying in from some far-flung corner of the globe to perform, we'd be loudly singing his praises; as it is, we know he's great, but we don't shout about it often ...
London Jazz Festival Preview: November 10th to 19th
by John Eyles
Now that autumn is here, the London Jazz Festival can't be far behind. This year, the LJF runs from Friday 10th November until Sunday 19th November. In those ten days, the festival will include its usual mix of jazz superstars and legends, rising stars, crowd pleasers, cult heroes, great freebies, plus--with nearly twenty gigs on some ...
The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition
by John Eyles
The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings Richard Cook and Brian Morton Softcover; 1534 pages ISBN: 0141023279 Penguin 2006 Now in its eighth edition, fourteen years since it first appeared, Richard Cook and Brian Morton's The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings is not going to spring any ...
