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A New Distance
Label: Emanem
Released: 2005
Track listing: spoken Intro; Stig; So this is official; Tape delight; Uneasy options; A certain elegance; spoken intro; Peripheral vision*; spoken intro; With Hindsight*; spoken conclusion
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: A New Distance
by John Eyles
We all owe great thanks to Emanem, without whom there would be very little music available by the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. The archive of SME recordings on the label now numbers twelve, ranging from Challenge, recorded in 1966-7, when free improvisation was in its infancy, through to these recordings from 1993-4, not long before John Stevens' ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Coming Together
by Nic Jones
Although the jazz vocabulary is undoubtedly American in origin, with the passing of time and the evolution jazz has arguably become a pejorative term for the making of improvised music. The improvisational element reaches its logical conclusion in music that is freely improvised, that is to say music that is free of all predetermined elements and ...
Challenge (1966-7)
Label: Emanem
Released: 2001
Track listing: E. D.'s Message; 2. B. Ornette; Club 66; Day of Reckoning; End of a Beginning (previously unissued take); Travelling Together; Litle Red Head; After Listening; End of a Beginning; Distant Little Soul.
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Challenge
by AAJ Staff
For the world of free improvisation, Challenge marks a major milestone. It represents the first recording of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, longtime standard-bearers of British free improv. Parts of this record were briefly released on the Eyemark label (which otherwise specialized in recordings of steam engines and opera spoofs!), but two tunes here never made it ...
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 ...
Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Low Profile
by Robert Spencer
The Spontaneous Music Ensemble consisted of a shifting cast of characters centered around the late lamented percussionist John Stevens; here he's joined by violinist Nigel Coombes, cellist Colin Wood (on two tracks), and guitarist Roger Smith (on one track). Thus all of these tracks are interplays of strings of various textures with percussion. Most of this ...
