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Blink: The Epidemic of Ideas
by Lyn Horton
Force fields emanate from and pour back into a source. This dynamic creates a self-generating system. When a group of musicians conglomerate, each playing a different instrument, each intent on developing a specific sound idea, but all beginning from a center, their dynamic is a self-generating system similar to the way force fields work. Blink embodies ...
Spring Heel Jack: Songs and Themes
by AAJ Italy Staff
Di tutte le storie che la musica creativa (jazz?) ci ha raccontato nell’ultimo ventennio, quella di John Coxon e Ashley Wales, aka Spring Heel Jack, è senza dubbio una delle più incredibili. Ex chitarrista degli Spiritualized e DJ a tempo perso il primo, sperimentatore elettronico il secondo, i due si sono avvicinati al mondo dell’improvvisazione con ...
Various Artists / Future of Music: Rock The Net
by Mark Corroto
Lately jazz artists have admitted to listening to the music of their own time. Surprised? Brad Mehldau covers Radiohead and The Bad Plus play Nirvana. But that's not current news. Miles loved “Surrey with the Fringe on Top" and, of course, John Coltrane fans called out for him to play “My Favorite Things." Popular culture is ...
Spring Heel Jack: Songs and Themes
by James Taylor
Songs and Themes is a visionary fusion of jazz, electronica and chamber music. With its eighth contribution to the Thirsty Ear Records catalog, the production team of Ashley Wales and multi-instrumentalist John Coxon has truly outdone itself. Songs and Themes is ambient and atmospheric while still maintaining a link to the avant-garde. Songs ...
Spring Heel Jack: Songs and Themes
by Lyn Horton
Sometimes, music is made to be pleasant without presenting audacious and extreme challenges to the ear. The key is for that music to remain engaging. How differentiated the instrumentation is, the more chances the umbrella of engagement can be opened. The slightest edge, the slightest off-centeredness will be heard and remembered, and will expand the music's ...
Spring Heel Jack: Songs and Themes
by Troy Collins
Named after a character from Victorian folklore, Spring Heel Jack (the English electronic duo of John Coxon and Ashley Wales) has vaulted across stylistic divides with the same ease that witnesses attributed to the legendary figure. Undergoing a gradual aesthetic transformation over the past decade, they have expanded from experimental drum 'n bass duo to innovators ...
Spring Heel Jack: Songs And Themes
by Mark Corroto
At the turn of this new century the duo of John Coxon and Ashley Wales, know as Spring Heel Jack took the words to heart of Jeffrey Lebowski, commonly known as “the dude" when he proclaimed, “this aggression will not stand, man!" The pair turned from their hyper-programmed drum 'n' bass origins to a ground breaking ...
Free Form Funk Freqs: Urban Mythology Volume One
by James Taylor
Guitarist Vernon Reid, bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and drummer G. Calvin Weston give the power trio new meaning with Urban Mythology Volume One. Released under the moniker the Free Form Funk Freqs, the album is less jazz and more improvisational rock, powered by Weston's double bass drum and heavy crash, hard rock approach and Reid's space-bending, delay-loving ...
Free Form Funky Freqs: Urban Mythology: Volume One
by Troy Collins
Guitarist Vernon Reid, bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma and drummer G. Calvin Weston are Free Form Funky Freqs. Their debut, Urban Mythology: Volume One, is an impromptu session unveiling new possibilities in the no-mans-land between improvisation and popular music. With diverse jazz and rock backgrounds, the trio uses their collective experience to add their own spin to the ...
Free Form Funky Freqs: Urban Mythology: Volume One
by Mark Corroto
Your patience will be tested. You heard me: the ability to sit through the entire 58 minutes of Urban Mythology: Volume One at high volume is an act of perseverance. The power trio known as Free Form Funky Freqs brings on the noise with such intensity that it is best served in small bites (but at ...
