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Ross Bolleter: Secret Sandhills and Satellites
by John Eyles
For the uninitiated--which includes most of us, I would guess--this album is at once intriguing, fascinating and educational. Subtitled “for ruined pianos and pianos on the edge of ruin, it features Ross Bolleter, co-founder of WARPS (World Association for Ruined Piano Studies), who recorded all of these pieces on ruined pianos at locations in his native ...
Jon Mueller / Jason Khan: Supershells
by John Eyles
With no tracks listed--there are two pieces here, total duration 45 minutes--and little information presented beyond the fact that it was recorded in concert in October 2005 in Milwaukee, this release is appealingly minimalist in its design and its packaging. Appropriately enough, it is also appealingly minimalist when it plays. Largely forsaking overtly expressed rhythm, Jon ...
4g: cloud
by John Eyles
4g (four gentlemen of the guitar) cloud Erstwhile 2005 Hmmm... Four gentlemen of the guitar? Whatever sound image that description conjures up in your head, it is probably a long way from the actual music here. Based on immediate aural evidence, one could more easily believe these ...
Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul Remixed!
by John Eyles
This release seems likely to re-open a heated debate and cause controversy. Should classic and famous jazz performances--such as Hawk's “Body and Soul --be treated with reverence and respect and be left in peace? Or can they be used as source material for further explorations, however remote from the mood and spirit of the original? Yes, ...
Fond Farewells / Freedom of the City / John Tchicai / Dan Flavin / Barbican Jazz
by John Eyles
Fond Farewells Since London Calling last appeared, we have all been saddened by the deaths of Derek Bailey and Elton Dean. Both leave behind a huge legacy ... and a vast unfillable gap. Anyone who has ever experienced their music knows that they will not be forgotten. Freedom of the City 2006 ...
London Electric Guitar Orchestra: Sticks and Stones
by John Eyles
This EP has a running time of just under twenty minutes and consists of one extended piece (indexed in three separate tracks). Recorded in 2001, the piece is almost the distilled essence of the London Electric Guitar Orchestra. In this expanded eleven-member version of the group, its guiding principles remain solid; as ever, the music is ...
Anthony Braxton with the Creative Jazz Orchestra: Composition No. 175 & Composition No. 126: Trillium-Dialogues M
by John Eyles
If you have been impressed by recent excellent but very different Braxton releases like 20 Standards, Ninetet (Yoshi's) 1997 Vol. 3 or Quintet (London) 2004: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (all on Leo, 2005), there is no way any of them will have prepared you for this latest Braxton release. The music here was recorded ...
Sun Ra and His Space Arkestra: What Planet Is This?
by John Eyles
It is appropriate that this double album is being released by Leo Records' Golden Years imprint. Recorded in New York in July, 1973, it features as large an Arkestra as any that Sun Ra put together and includes all of his key collaborators. What Planet Is This? comes from the crucial period when Sun Ra had ...
Collectif Inaudible: Cardo
by John Eyles
Until comparatively recently, free improvisation (as distinct from free jazz) has been predominantly a European phenomenon, with Britain, Germany and Holland in particular all producing many noteworthy players. In contrast, Belgium is not a country that one instantly thinks of in connection with free improvisation. However, Brussels has a long-established community of improvisers, dating back at ...
Bo's Art Trio: Cobra
by John Eyles
This is an album of 23 tracks, mostly short, half under two minutes long. Simon Vinkenoog is an esteemed Amsterdam-based poet who recites over the music on fifteen tracks, in the tradition of the long and glorious alliance between jazz and poetry, dating back at least half a century to the era of the Beats.
