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Kevin Ayers And The Whole World: Hyde Park Free Concert 1970
by Nic Jones
Thirty-eight years on, and Hyde Park Free Concert 1970 sounds like the kind of thing that would have present day festival goers running for cover from something other than the weather. In other words, it's a set of songs loosely jammed and punctuated by freakouts; a record of a moment in time when audiences expected something ...
Elliott Sharp: Concert In Dachau
by Nic Jones
Vocabulary is arguably the key ingredient in any entirely solo performance on any instrument other than the piano. Concert In Dachau is, perhaps, the best realized music Electroacoustic guitarist Elliott Sharp has ever committed to record. It's rare to get the chance to take in a musician's very thought processes as is possible here, and a ...
The Remote Viewers: Control Room
by Nic Jones
The Remote Viewers Control Room rermegacorp 2007 This five disc set is limited to 200 copies, which automatically gives it the distinction of being collectable. Although each disc is obviously the work of a set aggregation, there's sufficient depth and diversity in the ground covered for each to ...
Hugh Hopper: Idiom As A Means To No End
by Nic Jones
Hugh Hopper started out on his path through music as a stalwart of the British Canterbury scene, from which came bands including Soft Machine, of which Hopper was a member for five years, Caravan and Hatfield and The North. In a sense he's embodied the music which emerged from that scene, which might be best described ...
Workout: The Music of Hank Mobley
by Nic Jones
Workout: The Music of Hank Mobley Derek Ansell Hardcover; 162 pages ISBN: 978 09550908-8-2 Northway Books 2008 As a tenor saxophonist, Hank Mobley committed the cardinal sin of not adhering to any established stylistic aesthetic, for all of his association with the hard bop ...
Hartsaw / Aspelin / Smith / Bryerton: Ausfegen. Dedicated To Joseph Beuys
by Nic Jones
This is documentation of a never ending story, and it's that the story seems endlessly intriguing which makes for compelling listening. All four musicians are deeply schooled in the rigors of free improvisation, and every note and tone they produce makes that plain. Variety is further aided by the fact that the quartet is broken down ...
Live At The Green Mill
by Nic Jones
Ari Brown Live At The Green Mill Delmark 2007 Ari Brown has deep-running roots and, though in the past he's been associated with the likes of Lester Bowie, the music on this DVD is more straight ahead than his association with Bowie and the AACM might imply. His band has ...
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute To Octavia Butler
by Nic Jones
There's both a buzz and an independence about flautist Nicole Mitchell. Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute To Octavia Butler is her second disc for a label other than her own and it marks the arrival of a singular talent for whom the future holds much promise. That said there's a pervasive anxiety in this music that can ...
Chant-Lambert-Lexer-Milton / Coleman-Wastell-Wright / AMM: That Mysterious Forest Below London Bridge
by Nic Jones
Here's an opposite of the sampler album. Three groups, two of them relatively ad hoc and one of long-standing, perform three freely improvised pieces and the results are a byword for how diverse that approach to music-making can be. The quartet of Tom Chant, Ross Lambert, Sebastian Lexer and Matt Milton produce music that's unassumingly lithe ...
Sabertooth: Dr. Midnight
by Nic Jones
Context might be all here. At the time of this recording, Sabertooth had been working the same gig for a number of years but there's nothing sterile about the music it puts out. From the first note to the last it's clear that this is a band that's got its stuff down, and the sheer buzz ...
