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Bailey/Davies/Fell/Gaines/Wastell: Company in Marseilles
by John Eyles
What is it that makes Company Company?In the early days, some people thought that it was a group. But the personnel changed radically, so it couldn't be a group. Other people thought that any grouping led by Derek Bailey was Company. But Bailey also recorded under his own name, and one year Company Week ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Challenge (1966-7)
by John Eyles
These recordings are of historical importance. More importantly, they are a good listen.They are the earliest available recordings of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, dating from March 1966 and (one track, previously unissued) April 1967. They were issued briefly on LP in 1966. The recordings capture free improvisation at the point in time when it ...
Company: Epiphany
by John Eyles
Quite simply, Company produced some of the most stimulating improvised music you will ever hear.These recordings date from the Company Week held in June and July 1982. Having begun in 1976, by 1982 this annual improvisation festival was an established (and eagerly awaited) part of the calendar (even if the venue and time of ...
Morphogenesis: In Streams. Volume 1 1996-1999
by John Eyles
Morphogenesis produce music that has few (if any) points of reference to other music. All of it is totally improvised yet it is unlike most music labelled as “improv." The music is largely created using live electronics but this is not an electronic band. Indeed, it is the other instruments that Morphogenesis use that make them ...
Quatuor Accorde: Angel Gate
by John Eyles
There is an increasingly high profile for improvising string players other than guitarists and double bassists. Slowly but surely, it is developing through the work of players such as Rhodri Davies, Phil Durrant, Susanna Ferrar, Ivor Kallin, Kaffe Matthews, Marcio Mattos, Phil Wachsman and Mark Wastell. Witness the recent Strings with Evan Parker album, and all-string ...
Bugge Wesseltoft (New Conception of Jazz): Moving
by John Eyles
With his 1998 album, Sharing, Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft made people sit up and take notice. In the tidal wave of verbiage at the end of the last Millenium, he was more than once hailed as “the future of jazz." His music is a hybrid, containing elements of rock, dub, ambient, funk and techno. But it has ...
Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith: Joe Gallivan, Gary Smith
by John Eyles
If the mark of a great player is that you can recognise them from just one note, then look no further than Gary Smith. His electric stereo guitar sound is as distinctive as the sound of Miles, Getz or Hendrix, as individual as DNA. Using real-time electronics and pedals, Smith has the capacity to bend, shape ...
Strings with Evan Parker: Strings with Evan Parker (1998)
by John Eyles
Free improvisation works best in trios, quartets and quintets, where the music resembles a discussion or debate, with each player responding to the contributions of all the others. In larger groupings, it becomes increasingly impossible for each participant to listen and respond to everyone else. A “cocktail party effect" takes over, as each player only responds ...
Shoji Hano, Gary Smith, Asahito Nanjo: Shoji Hano
by John Eyles
Ever since the days of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, electric guitar/bass guitar/drums trios have primarily been vehicles for rock music. They are comparatively rare in jazz, and rarer in free improvised music. Those that do exist often blur the boundaries with rock, using its vocabulary but not its syntax or vice versa. Because of ...
