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Eivind Aarset's Electronique Noire: Light Extracts
by John Eyles
Although it is recognisably from the Jazzland ECM-with-beats mold, because of its bass-heavy rhythms and grooves, guitarist Eivind Aarset's follow-up to Electronique Noire (Jazzland, 1998) definitely sounds like a muso's album. Aarset is happy to discuss his roots in Hendrix, heavy metal, fusion and ECM--elements that combined with the Jazzland ethos to give his debut album ...
Evan Parker: Lines Burnt In Light
by John Eyles
This is the most significant Evan Parker for quite a while, for several reasons, some musical, some commercial. Firstly, Psi is Parker's own record label (via Emanem). He has total artistic control, something he has not had since his days at Incus (if then?), which ended in the 80s. This CD is the label's first release, ...
Acoustic Guitar Trio: Acoustic Guitar Trio
by John Eyles
Unpredictable as ever, Incus have released an album rich in melody and harmony, neither typical of the Incus catalogue. If an electric guitar can produce some of the most violent of improvised music, an acoustic guitar is potentially both soothing and melodic. When three of them play together, the soundscape verges on lush.Listened to ...
Aufgehoben No Process Vs Gary Smith: Magnetic Mountain
by John Eyles
"Aufgehoben No Process take no responsibility for your health, hardware or other sensitivities physical, intellectual or emotional." Believe me, they are not joking! Right from the start, this album takes no prisoners. It begins in top gear, at distorted, ear-bleeding volume, and works up from there into a relentless aural assault. With their guitar-bass-drums line up ...
Anliker-Parker-Schmid-Senn-Solothurnmann: September Winds
by John Eyles
In 1999, a series of concerts took place in an abandoned underground drinking water cistern near Zurich, build in 1922. Performances from that series were released on Vollmond on Creative Works Records. A second series of concerts was planned for September 2000, but fire regulations stopped them taking place. Instead, a series of recording sessions took ...
Glass Cage: Glass Cage
by John Eyles
Glass Cage is yet another ace trio featuring Gary Smith on guitar. Following his Stereo trio, Mass, Powerfield, and the recent Shoji Hano trio, this is another winner. And again Smith has come up with a great name, one that sounds like a prog-rock band and has all kinds of resonances. The trio consists of Smith ...
Burkhard Beins & John Bisset: Chapel/Kapell
by John Eyles
London-based John Bisset and Berlin-based Burkhard Beins have long collaborated in the annual London improv event Relay, and in the organisation of the 2:13 Clubs in the two cities. As a guitar and drums duo, they have an almost unlimited capacity to surprise. Over eight tracks, ranging in length from under two minutes to over twelve, ...
Michael Renkel: Activity Centre Mowen and Moos Remix
by John Eyles
Hmm, this is an oddity. The duo of guitarist Michael Renkel and drummer Burkhard Beins call themselves Activity Centre. Mowen & Moos was their double CD (one CD called Mowen, the other Moos ) released on 2:13 records in 1999. You are unlikely to have heard it (or even seen it) as it was released in ...
Pat Thomas: Nur. Solo piano 1999
by John Eyles
Pat Thomas is one of the UK's most versatile and unpredictable improvisers. His piano, electronic keyboards and (often eccentric) taped samples have featured in many memorable contexts including Company, Relay, in duos with Derek Bailey and with Lol Coxhill (their One Night in Glasgow is well worth seeking out), with Tony Oxley, and in the trio ...
Relay: Relay Eight
by John Eyles
Relay Eight? Wasn't their last release called Relay III? What is happening? Well, Relay is not a group or band. It is an event that happens in London as part of the Stoke Newington Festival each June. This release dates from 2000, the eighth such event. Relay III recorded the 1995 event. Others have not (so ...
