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Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Bare Essentials 1972-3
by John Eyles
John Stevens and Trevor Watts are vitally important in the history of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (and so of improvised music) but the only previous album of the duo alone is Face to Face (Emanem, 1974). From 1968 to 1976 the two often were the SME. But when recording opportunities came up, Stevens usually opted for ...
Quintessence
Label: Emanem
Released: 2007
Track listing: Forty Minutes (part 1); Forty Minutes (part 2); Thirty-five Minutes (part 1); Thirty-five Minutes (part 2); Ten Minutes; Rambunctious 1; Rambunctious 2; Daa-oom; Corsop; Daa-oom (duo version).
Frameworks
Label: Emanem
Released: 2007
Track listing: Familie Sequence; Quartet Sequence; Flower.
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Frameworks
by Nic Jones
All of the freely improvised music collected here is previously unissued and, to the best of my knowledge, only the duo of percussionist John Stevens and reed player Trevor Watts has been extensively documented on record before now, notably on Face To Face (Emanem, 1973). The duo is featured on “Flower here. The piece was recorded ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence
by John Eyles
After releasing this music on two LPs and then on two CDs, Emanem now re-release it on a double CD. In the process, the performances are put into a more sensible order. The vast bulk of their 1974 ICA concert (seventy-five out of the eight-five minutes) is now together on one CD. This concert featured the ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Frameworks
by John Eyles
Increasingly, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble recordings released on Emanem (which now number ten CDs, not including Spontaneous Music Orchestra releases) resemble the pieces of a large and intricate jigsaw puzzle. The recordings span some twenty-eight years, at least twenty-five recording occasions ("sessions not being the appropriate word) and numerous line-ups--John Stevens being the only ever-present participant. ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Biosystem
by AAJ Italy Staff
Inciso nel 1977 dallo Spontaneous Music Ensemble (e ripubblicato oggi con 35 minuti d'inediti) questo disco appartiene alla seconda fase della vita del gruppo, quando la presenza di fiati ed ance (Trevor Watts, Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker) fu sostituita da strumenti a corda: il violino di Nigel Coombes, la chitarra acustica di Roger Smith ed il ...
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 ...
