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Album

The Hillside Mechanisms

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2013
Track listing: No Knees; Rampicanti; Slow Burn; Voiced Unvoiced; Improctober; Tim’s Frosties; At Times Their Skins Peel Off; Before.

Album

The Hillside Mechanisms

By Roland Ramanan

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. No Knees; 02. Rampicanti; 03. Slow Burn; 04. Voiced Unvoiced; 05. Improctober; 06. Tim's Frosties; 07. At Times Their Skins Pee Off; 08. Before.

Article: Album Review

Hillside Road è l'indirizzo dell'abitazione londinese del batterista spagnolo Javier Carmona (John Tchicai, John Russell, etc.). Una sorta di laboratorio musicale frequentato da numerosi musicisti tra cui il trombettista britannico Roland Ramanan (John Stevens, Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, etc.) e il chitarrista italiano Roberto Sassi (Cardosanto, London Improvisers Orchestra, etc.). L'empatia tra i tre musicisti è ...

Article: Album Review

Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

Read "The Hillside Mechanisms" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
June 10, 2013

Three stalwarts of the London Improvisers Orchestra come together on the debut outing of the genre-mashing Vole. When playing credits number saxophone iconoclasts Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker and Ingrid Laubrock, bassist Simon Fell and pianist Alexander Hawkins, then energy and imagination can be almost guaranteed. What's fascinating is how they align improv with noise, heavy metal ...

Article: Album Review

Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

Read "The Hillside Mechanisms" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 3, 2013

Youthful dynamism and a conglomerate of influences signify a few conspicuous attributes of this European trio's debut album. It's a semi-structured and highly improvised outing. And the musicians pool their resources to indulge in free-form slugfests amid transitory punk-rock grooves, bizarre progressive-rock stylizations and numerous flights into the avant-garde jazz strata. Nonetheless, the band is a ...