Results for "Weekertoft"

The Outlier

Label: Weekertoft
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Outlier!.

Paul G. Smyth & John Wiese: The Outlier

by Mark Corroto
August 23, 2022

The Outlier! by Paul G. Smyth and John Wiese is an ambient recording. No, it's a free improvisation set, or could it be industrial sound or noise? Yes, and yes again. Recorded before an audience in The National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland, this duo brings together pianist and Weekertoft Records label chief Smyth with the ...

Tongue In A Bell

Label: Weekertoft
Released: 2020
Track listing: Tongue In A Bell; Falling Out Of All The Towers Of Space; Eyes Wide.

Peter Brötzmann / Paul G. Smyth: Tongue In A Bell

by Mark Corroto
August 3, 2020

There are only a handful of pianists the great reedist Peter Brötzmann has worked with. Back in the Machine Gun (FMP, 1968) days it was Fred Van Hove at the keyboards. Then there was Misha Mengelberg and Alexander von Schlippenbach, plus those Berlin sessions with Cecil Taylor, and the new millennium recordings with Japanese pianist Masahiko ...

Ironside

By Ruby Rushton

Label: Weekertoft
Released: 2019
Track listing: One Mo' Dram; Where Are You Now?; The Target; Return of the Hero; Eleven Grapes; Lara's Theme; Prayer for Grenfell; Ironside; Triceratops / The Caller; Pingwin (Requiem for Komeda).

Calenture and Light Leaks

By Evan Parker

Label: Weekertoft
Released: 2019
Track listing: Calenture and Light Leaks; Baffled, Standing in the Air.

Ruby Rushton: Ironside

by Don Phipps
December 2, 2019

Ruby Rushton's Ironside is like a trip back to the jazz of Dave Grusin's late 1980s film soundtrack The Fabulous Baker Boys. Hard driving bop, the music bubbles along with syncopated riffs and upbeat, energetic shuffles interlaced with soulful intervals. Woodwind player Edward Cawthorne penned six of the tunes, keyboardist Aidan Shepherd penned two ...

Evan Parker / Paul G. Smyth: Calenture and Light Leaks

by Don Phipps
July 22, 2019

The live collaboration of the remarkable English tenor saxophonist Evan Parker and Irish pianist Paul G. Smyth on their album Calenture and Light Leaks is like listening to the piano impressions of Debussy while exploring a gallery of Picassos--pure bliss in action. There is an airy quality to the abstractions here, like playful sunbeams ...

Evan Parker and Paul G. Smyth on Weekertoft

by John Eyles
February 17, 2019

In 2016, English guitarist John Russell and Irish pianist Paul G. Smyth set up the independent Weekertoft label to release music they had been involved in, including recordings made at Russell's longstanding monthly Mopomoso concert series or annual Fete Quaqua festival. As the label reached its third anniversary, its catalogue was dominated by two large sets--the ...

Weekertoft Hits Its Stride…

by John Eyles
January 7, 2017

As Weekertoft approaches its first anniversary, its teething troubles seem over as it is settling down into a pattern of releasing music regularly. Of the label's two latest releases, one is on CD, the other a download, a balanced approach that seems likely to become the norm. The download release is significant for two connected reasons: ...