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Keith Rowe / Toshimaru Nakamura: Between
by John Eyles
Although it was released some six months ago, there has been a reluctance to rush into print with judgments of this album. In common with other Erstwhile releases, this is music that takes time to properly percolate into the brain and leave its mark. Together and separately, Rowe and Nakamura are Erstwhile's most recorded artists and, ...
Adam Linson: Cut and Continuum
by John Eyles
Whatever your reaction to the words “solo bass album, Adam Linson's debut will probably change your mind. Previously best known--if at all--as the bassist in Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on The Eleventh Hour (ECM, 2005), Linson is here given centre stage and produces a recording that commands attention. His album of solo double bass largely eschews ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Biosystem
by John Eyles
Emanem has been the bastion of SME releases for years now; without the label, John Stevens' legacy would be a fading memory, despite his lasting influence on a generation of players. However, this SME release--dating from 1977--appears on Psi rather than Emanem, as it was originally released on Incus (incidentally, making it the first Incus re-release ...
Roswell Rudd: Blown Bone
by John Eyles
Recorded in March 1976 (with an unreleased interlude from 1967 added here) and only ever released in Japan in 1979, this album is a little lost gem. Unusually for an Emanem release, it features not free improv but straight-ahead jazz. This album is labelled “File under: Jazz (Free/Blues/Latin) --not a common designation for the label. Central ...
Alan Skidmore / Mike Osbourne / John Surman: SOS
by John Eyles
It is wonderful to have this album available for the first time on CD--and scary to realise that it was recorded and released in 1975! It is worth dwelling for a moment on how the (jazz) world has changed in the intervening years. In 1975, the idea of an all-saxophone group was unheard of; the countless ...
Mark O'Leary: Awakening
by John Eyles
By turns, Mark O'Leary continues to be impressive, baffling, infuriating and intriguing. At his best, he is without parallel as a guitarist--impressively inventive and sounding unlike anyone else. Here, a track such as “First Light is a prime example; unhurried, reflective and mesmerising, full of gently bent notes, it creates its own beguiling soundworld. Likewise, the ...
The Contest of Pleasures: Albi Days
by John Eyles
For Albi Days, their second Potlatch recording, The Contest of Pleasures (now the trio's name, formerly an album title; you may recall a similar thing happened with “Foxes Fox" ) adopted a very different methodology to the first, reflecting some of the shifts that have taken place in improv in the five years between the releases. ...
Evan Parker: The Topography of the Lungs
by John Eyles
Originally released in 1970--with catalogue number Incus 1, thus launching Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley's famous label--this is a long awaited and historic reissue. When Parker and Bailey went their separate ways in 1987, Parker took his Incus recordings and other archived material with him. Since the advent of Psi, most of his Incus ...
Michael Renkel: Errorkoerper III
by John Eyles
Lest anyone think that the use of electric guitar, effects processor and laptop prescribes a particular type of sound or a particular way of playing, here is Michael Renkel to disabuse them of the notion; there are as many ways and sounds as there are players. Renkel used his guitar as a source of non-traditional guitar ...
James Beaudreau: Java Street Bagatelles
by John Eyles
This album contains a series of 24 brief, home-produced solo guitar pieces, garnered from many more that were recorded over a two year period. The pieces are mostly improvised with a few compositions thrown in. Mainly, they run into each other, giving a unified, seamless flow to the music. As the album title suggests, there is ...
