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Vole

The Hillside Mechanisms

By Vole

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.

Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 11, 2013

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 ...

Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

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 ...

Vole: The Hillside Mechanisms

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 ...

Babel Label: New Songs from the Tower of Sound

by Jakob Baekgaard
September 24, 2012

During the last decade, British jazz has been booming and London has become, once again, one of the jazz capitals of the world. To get a feel of what's happening, the place for live music is no longer Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, but a place called The Vortex, directed by Oliver Weindling. Weindling is also the ...