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Spring Heel Jack: Live
by AAJ Staff
Spring Heel Jack, which has spanned a remarkably diverse range of sounds since its coming out in 1995, recently turned toward jazz (or post-jazz) improvisation as a medium for expression. John Coxon and Ashley Wales made one of the greatest electronica records of all time in Busy Curious Thirsty (Trade 2/Island, 1997), but over the course ...
Spring Heel Jack: Live
by Farrell Lowe
From the opening salvo of distorted electric guitar, there is little doubt that the latest release from Spring Heel Jack will be nothing short of a wild bundle of scabrous love. While this album consists of only two live pieces, both over thirty-five minutes long, this notorious group of individuals cover a vast emotional and musical ...
Spring Heel Jack: John Coxon and Ashley Wales
by John Eyles
Two of the most innovative and impressive albums of the past two years have been Masses and Amassed by Spring Heel Jack, both on the Thirsty Ear label. These albums were particularly notable for the duo—individually, John Coxon and Ashley Wales—joining forces with some of jazz's most cutting edge players. On Masses, they were ...
AMaSSED
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Double Cross; Amassed; Wormwood; Lit; Maroc; 100 Years Before; Duel;
Obscured.
Spring Heel Jack: Amassed
by Mark Corroto
The duo of John Coxon and Ashley Wales, known as Spring Heel Jack to the drum'n'bass crowd, walked out of the jungle on last years Masses recording, eschewing programmed beats for the more esoteric sounds found in free jazz. Like a military band meets a fluxus happening, their ‘nu’ sound for Matthew Shipp’s Blue Series left ...
Masses
Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Chorale; Chiaroscuro; Interlude 1; Masses; Cross; Salt; Medusa's Head; Red Worm; Interlude 2; Coda.
Spring Heel Jack: Masses
by AAJ Staff
It's not the most obvious marriage of styles. A pair of studio musicians lay down a mesh of found sounds, modified instruments, loops and textures; then free improvisers blow on top. That's what you get on Masses, credited to Spring Heel Jack and the “Blue Series Continuum." Think of it as an all-star improv collective on ...
