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Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam

Uno scrittore/pensatore originale e decentrato come Henry David Toureau, un musicista altrettanto originale come Billy Bottle—multistrumentista alla corte di Mike Westbrook, sentimentalmente colluso con la Canterbury Scene -, un'etichetta d'avanguardia e intransigente come Leo Records, ed ecco servito Unrecorded Beam.

Unrecorded Beam è il senso della vita visto attraverso la natura, i suoi ritmi, i suoi riti, i suoi misteri, le sue imprevedibilità. Bottle e la sua corte di musicanti sono abili nel costruire un album che si abbevera alla fonte del folk inglese, rende omaggio al rock progressivo, sconfina con gusto nel pop melodico, e sostiene il tutto con le giuste dosi di improvvisazione.

Flauto e violino fanno la parte del leone, insieme a voci e cori dal sapore pastorale, ma ci pensano chitarra elettrica e sax a togliere le quantità zuccherine in eccesso. Aggiungiamo il gioco dei contrappunti e qualche intrusione elettronica e avremo qualche indizio sulla musica contenuta in Unrecorded Beam. Che è disco rinfrescante come l'acqua di un ruscello e corroborante come una scarpinata su un sentiero di montagna.

Track Listing

Within The Circuit Of This Plodding Life; Winter Memories; The Vessel: Inward Morning; O Nature; Outward Morning; Fog; Mere Smoke Of Opinion; Men Say They Know Many Things.

Personnel

Billy Bottle: voice, grand piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, bass guitar; Martine Waltier: voice, violin; Roz Harding: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone. Vivien Goodwin-Darke: flute; Angus Menter: trombone; Mike Outram: bass guitar; Gary Evans: drums; Lee Fletcher: digital editing, virtual pipe organ, virtual guitar, soundscapes, treatments, additional arrangements; Kate Westbrook: voice (3, 8); Jay Darlington: organ (3, 8); Markus Reuter: touch guitar (6).

Album information

Title: Unrecorded Beam | Year Released: 2014 | Record Label: Leo Records


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