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ARE LOTHE KOLBEINSEN/TERJE EVENSEN & MARIA CASTRO |
| For Those Who Have Everything [FMRCD272-0309] |
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| Are Lothe Kolbeinsen (guitar/live looping), Terje Evensen (percussion),
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Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Evelyn Chang (piano), Philip Gibbs (guitar), Trevor Taylor (percussion & electronics) |
| ATMOSPHERES WITHOUT OXYGEN2 [FMRCD271-020908] |
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ALEXANDER HAWKINS ENSEMBLE |
| No Now Is So.. [FMRCD270-0209] |
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| Alexander Hawkins (piano), Orphy Robinson (steel pan), Otto Fischer (electric guitar),
Hannah Marshall (‘cello), Dominic Lash (double bass), Javier Carmona (drums, percussion)
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FRODE GJERSTAD/JOHN EDWARDS/MARK SANDERS |
| Bergen [FMRCD269-0209] |
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JANNE TUOMI (Percussion) |
| Resonance [FMRCD266-0908] |
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Recorded in the beautiful church of Kulhmalahti in Finland , Resonance features the solo percussion of percussionist Janne Tunomi.
The church is recognised as having a spectaculary good acoustic as is evident on the sound his drums and percussion in this recording, excelently captured by Jussi Saivo
Janne is one of those new breed of extremely talented musicians who are equally home playing complex and demanding contemporary classical music, tradional music as well as free improv, and for this opportunity he decided to explore free improvisation, something he is very passionate about
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MATTHEW SHIPP & MARK O’LEARY |
| LABYRINTH [FMRCD265-0508] |
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| Matthew Shipp (piano), Mark O'Leary (guitar)
Celebrated pianist Matthew Shipp joins Irish guitarist Mark O;leary for his follow up to his excellent Ellipses release on FMR. Mark and Matthew explore the many colloquial corridors of improvisation which manifest from their collective lexicons.
Meditative, intense, dynamic, even ambient in parts, it is a new discourse in the history of Piano/Guitar duo.
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JASPER VAN'T HOF & FREDY STUDER |
| Pangramm [fmrCD264-0808] |
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Fredy Studer (drums, percussion, electronic devices)
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THE MANCINI PROJECT |
| Views of Mancini [FMRCD263-0808] |
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| Pat Thomas (piano), Simon h. Fell (double bass, prerecordings),
Han Bennink(drums), Steve Noble (turntables, manipulations)
The Mancini Project has the specific intention of combining the groups love of the original Mancini compositions with a relish of the experimental, squaring that particular circle and hopefully producing a true fusion; a meeting of musical minds (and generations) rather than a simplistic and fashionable nod to mainstream accessibility.
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RED SQUARE |
| THIRTY THREE [FMRCD262-0508] |
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| JON SEAGROATT (bass clarinet & soprano saxophone), IAN STAPLES (guitar & violin). ROGER TELFORD (drums & percussion) The release of this album documents a remarkable, pioneering British group that formed in 1972 and broke up in 1978. The material on ‘Thirty Three’ was recorded between those years, but was considered too extreme for release at the time. |
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EMERGE |
| VANISHING PICTURES [FMRCD261-0606] |
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| Dirk Wachtelaer (percussion), plus guests The Center for World Cultures Zuiderpershuis is the temple of world music in Belgium and enthusiastically dedicated to their mission : artistic communication between western and non-western cultures. It is that location and ethic that Wachtelaer and a vast erray of musicians from around the globe converge. |
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PAT THOMAS |
| Plays The Music Of Derek Bailey & Thelonious Monk [FMRCD259-0508] |
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Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Evelyn Chang (piano), Philip Gibbs (guitar), Trevor Taylor (percussion & electronics) |
| ATMOSPHERES WITHOUT OXYGEN [FMRCD258-0508] |
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FRODE GJERSTAD HAMMID DRAKE WILLIAM PARKER (FMRCD256-0208) |
| ON READE STREET [FMRCD256-0208] |
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| Hamid, William and I have made 3 records prior to this one.”Remember to forget”
and “Ultima” were recorded during our first Scandinavian tour in October 1997.
“The other side” was a studio recording from Chicago during our North-American
tour in January 2000. And “On Reade Street” was recorded in New York, January
2006.
Hamid and William are two very nice people who also play their music very well.
I think my fascination for their art partly lies in the fact that they have
played a lot together.
They have a certain thing they bring to the table and it´s quite a challenge
both to go with it and also to go against it because it´s a very strong thing
and it´s very personal.
They will sometimes invite me into territories that I normally stay away from –
the jazz thing. To me, this is both frightening and exciting. I feel like
walking on the edge with one foot in open air!
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MICHEL LAMBERT - RAKLAM BOB MOSES (FMRCD 256-0108) |
| MEDITATION ON GRACE [FMRCD256-0108] |
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Drums and visual art seem to me to go together. Many great drummers are also
painters. Do we paint like we play or do we play like we paint or does it even
relate? With two drummers playing together then drawing together does this help
me understand the incredible process of creation? I embarked on the road to find
out. I contacted Rakalam Bob Moses in Boston to see how his powerful drum
language and expression with his intriguing visual art style would interplay
with my sound and images iconographies. These are conceptual ideas and the real
creative experience was beyond concepts.
What a day! I arrived in Quincy late morning, just south of downtown Boston. I
rang Rakalam's doorbell. I had driven a couple days before from Montreal and
that morning, left my family behind in an hotel in rainy Old Orchard Beach
hoping the sunshine would finally show up. We were in mid summer, July 15, 2004.
Rakalam had already prepared two well furnished drum sets. Soon after, PJ showed
up with his portable recording studio. We played non stop for quite a
while....took a little break and then back at the drums again.
Once I had stepped into Rakalam's door, I had entered the raw unknown, a world
so magnificent!
While playing, I was busy working with the multiple layers of sounds, creating,
sculpting, conversing. Only later on did I realize the proportion, this
encounter had taken. Much later, dark outside, we sat down and worked on a
couple of small paintings together... In contrast with the afternoon work, our
drawing session was very calm and playful.
Late that night, we drove down the street to a small Asian restaurant and had
some food, hung out little more. In the car, Rakalam played me a, then, recent
tape of his and while listening, a clear vision came to me, one of galactic
luminosity rising straight up from his drums. I will never forget this and, as
you, Rakalam, express it so well,
"To my brother in sound healing," ...Hu Rakalam, "love always"... Michel |
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WISHFUL THINKING (FMR 255-0108) |
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Simon Wallace. The album is gaining notable praise from jazz musicians and critics alike.
A big fan of Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell Orla pays homage to them by her emotion-
al interpretations of their respective songs ‘Make Sure Your Sure’ and ‘Be Cool’.
However, her unique cover of Sting’s ‘Fragile’ with guitarist Ping Lee sets the tone of the
wonderful album.
The first thing that strikes you when listening to this debut album from Belfast-born,
London-based Vocalist Orla Murphy is her lustrous timbre. Sounding like the forgotten
lovechild of Joni Mitchell and Terry Callier - seamlessly combining the liquid phrasing of
the former with the soulful sonorities of the latter - Murphy’s captivating tone really
draws the listener into the song. It comes as no surprise when she dusts down Mitchell’s
‘Be Cool’ midway through the set. The 11-track collection is nicely balanced |
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MARK O’LEARY |
| ELLIPSES [FMRCD254-0208] |
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Ståle Storløkken (synths/samples)
Recorded in Cork, Fermoy and Chicago. Members of Tortoise and Supersilent join the hugely talented guitarist Mark O’Leary in a recording that pushes the boundaries on all levels, Post Miles Electronica could be an adequate description. Fusion, Rock, Soundscapes, Electronica all combine to create a kaleidoscope of musical images not too dissimilar from the manipulated film frame images of Stan Brakhage, whose work adorns the cd cover and lends its name to this recording.
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THAT IS A STEP (FMRCD253-0108) |
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This one of the surprise succesful releases so far this year! On the face of it a difficult combination turns out a most spectacular success with Hanna Gjermundrod’s seductive voice the perfect foil for Petter vaganns hard punching live electronics! The secret is both their ability to supply a uninterupted stream of constantly changing creative ideas. With the addition of live electronic modulation on the voice and the lapsteel as well the soundworld becomes thicker and more menacing, but always enticing and never fails to hold your attention and delight!
Petters crackly electronics supply a constantly chattering barrage of bumps and squeaks with the electronic oscillators often raw and crude one moment, and dense and complicated the next! while Hanna is sometimes ethereal and otherworldly and then suddenly manic and threatening with the sampling and looping creating yet another dimension making it almost a trio!!
!Even the title 'That is a step' is unlikely , taken from Shakespeares Macbeth. Just back from a successful tour of North America promoting the album This first recording of the duo is a masterpiece always challenging, stimulating and constantly rewarding, perfect improv!!!!! |
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BOB GLUCK TRIO (FMRCD251-0108) |
| SIDEWAYS [FMRCD251-0108] |
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| Bob Gluck Piano and Electronics, Michael Bisio bass, Dean Sharp
This stunning trio recording brings a uniquely creative yet disciplined edge to jazz per-
formance. All three musicians are known for their blend of virtuosity and deep musical-
ity. The trio’s watchwords are collaboration, listening and response, and collective
dynamism. Structured tunes flow in and out of free improvisation, taking the performers
and listeners alike to unexpected imaginative places.
Critics have noted bassist Michael Bisio’s “diverse array of timbre and technical skill,”
Dean Sharp’s percussive “mystery and grace,” and Bob Gluck’s “melding old and new
into a sensory melange of auditory awakening.” Gluck’s piano sounds subtley range
between the purely acoustic and digitally transformed, joined by Sharp’s broadly rang-
ing sonic array of percussion and Bisio’s distinctly physical approach to the string bass.
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TREVOR WATTS' MOIRE MUSIC |
| MOIRE MUSIC [FMRCD250-0208] |
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| Trevor Watts (as,s), Lol Coxhill (ss), Simon Picard - t/ss), Keith Beal (b/bass/ss), Peter Knight (v), Steve Dunachie (v), Veryon Weston (p), Ernest Mothle (bg), Liam Genockey (dr), Nana Tsiboe (marimba/talking drum/congas)
FMR are proud to present the CD release of the classic album Trevor Watts’ Moiré Music!!!! Recorded live during the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network Tour in January 1985 and featuring an all star line up, this classic British jazz recording finally gets its debut on CD!!!!! “Watts has wed the flexibility and organic strength of the jazz idiom to the rigorous drive and depth to be found, for instance, in the music of Philip Glass, bringing an energy and fire to substantial composition. Moiré Music - for the head, heart and feet.” (Kenneth Ansell)
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CROSSING (FMR 247-1107) |
| PAUL DUNMALL, EVELYN CHANG, TREVOR TAYLOR [FMRCD247-1107] |
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in which their individual experience and musics meet and interact, fueled
by a common love of improvisation. Evelyn Chang is an exciting young
concert pianist regularly giving concerts around the world, but who since
meeting Paul Dunmall, discovered the totaly different world of free
improvisation and found a liberating force for her expression. Paul
Dunmall need no introduction as one of the UK's finest saxophonists ded-
icated totaly to free improvisation, and Trevor Taylor comes somewhere
in between with experience as a free improviser as well as a life-time
interest in other serious musics as well, including electronics |
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DIRK WACHTELAER AND KöHN |
| EVENING AND MORNING [FMRCD245-1207] |
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In March 2007 Jürgen de Blonde (aka Köhn) and Dirk Wachtelaer were working together with two Chinese musicians for a Vanishing Pictures project in Antwerp, Belgium. This music is the result of the two musicians working late one evening and early one morning during the course of these two days of sessions, producing a unique sound that has a life of its own, complete as a seperate body of work all its own.
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PAUL DUNMALL, PAUL ROGERS, MARK SANDERS |
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| Paul Dunmall (tenor, soprano saxophones), Paul Rogers (7-string bass), Mark Sanders (drums)
Continuing the series of small-group improvisations by saxophonist Paul Dunmall that has featured impressive performances by the likes of Peter Brandt (Occasional Rain, Deep Well), Tony Marsh (Occasional Rain), Tony Orrell and Jim Barr (Deep Sea), comes Deep Whole. Featuring excellent drummer/percussionist Mark Sanders and regular Dunmall partner in crime Paul Rogers on bass, this is a more than welcome recording of three of Britain’s top flight improvisers in top flight form.
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PAUL DUNMALL QUARTET |
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MARK O'LEARY, TERJE ISUNGSET |
| SHAMANIC VOICES [FMRCD240-0807] |
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Terje Isungset (Drums, percussion, stones, bells, wood, gongs, jews harp)
Mark O’Leary has paired up with the immensely creative percussionist Terje Isungset, well known throughout Europe for his use of ‘natural’ found objects( stones, wood and ice sculptures). The pair explore some beautiful soundworlds over the course of 13 tracks, using guitar, electronics and percussion to outstanding effect.
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MARK O'LEARY/DYLAN VAN DER SCHYFF/WAYNE HORVITZ |
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The Irish guitarist Mark O’Leary follows his debut FMR release ‘Signs’ (FMRCD214-1106) with this improvising trio recording. For ‘Flux’, O’Leary exchanges musical dialogue with ace drummer/percussionist Dylan van der Schyff and the dazzling piano and prepared piano of Wayne Horvitz over 15 taut improvisations that reveal these players as unique and individual performers of the highest calibre.
This is another exceptional disc from the up and coming guitarist Mark O’Leary, a player who has definately broken into the upper echelons of the more-forward-thinking realms of jazz and improvisation. One to watch!!
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EXTRAORDINARY IMPROVISATIONS |
| BETWEEN THE NOTES [FMRCD234-0707] |
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Sam Walton (percussion), Peter Whyman (clarinet & saxophone)
This CD was made after a competition ran in the BBC Music Magazine to find ideas on which to base improvisations - the idea was to explore how music can come from non-musical sources like concepts, words, pictures and so on. The contemporary classical quintet Between The Notes asked for entries in 9 categories and chose their favourite one of each, then recorded two or three versions of each, then picked the best one to be on the disc. This disc, recorded in a day and with no editing at all, is a remarkable project that successfully combines both contemporary classical and improvisation to spellbinding effec
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JEZ FRANKS' COMPASSIONATE DICTATORSHIP |
| COUP D'ETAT [FMRCD233-0507] |
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| British guitarist Jez Franks has been on the UK scene for a number of years, becoming one of Britain’s guitarists of choice for many of Europes most respected jazz groups.
FMR are proud to present Jez Frank’s Compassionate Dictatorship, an accomplished quartet of excellent musicians with whom Jez has an instinctive rapport. His electric and baritone guitars share a wonderful dialogue with Tori Freestone’s saxophone, and the dazzling backing of Ben Reynolds and Jasper Hoiby on drums and bass respectively create a winning formula for this unique and spellbinding guitar quartet.
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AS NOWHERE AS ANYWHERE |
| BLAST 6TET [FMRCD229-0407] |
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Blast’s sixth release in their eighteenth year of existence. The core of the group plays together since 2000 and consists out of Fabrizio Spera (I-drums,percussion), Paed Conca (CH-bass), Frank Crijns (NL-guitar) and Dirk Bruinsma (NL-reeds, flute,electronics).
Joined by the Turkish-Kazakh singer Saadet Türköz and the Swiss reed player Hans Koch, on this CD Blast is playing a program of fully improvised music. Saadet's singing is a fusion of modern vocal techniques with elements of the Turkish-Mongolian music tradition. Hans Koch is known for his longstanding work in trio with Koch/Schütz/Studer, and for various international collaborations in the circuit of improvised music. This combination makes an obstinate music with moments of raw expression and refined lyrical quality. |
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THE CONVERGENCE QUARTET |
| LIVE IN OXFORD [FMRCD223-0307] |
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Alexander Hawkins (piano/small instruments), Dominic Lash (double bass)
The Convergence Quartet, featuring an international line up of expert improvisers, present their first release for FMR. This live set was recorded at the prestigeous Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building in Oxford.
“.....you’ll be listening even more closely the second time around, rather than sticking the CD on your shelf with the comfortable expectations-fulfilled assertion ‘yes, I really like that kind of music, and therefore I really liked that album’. After all, that would be too easy, and music can offer a much richer experience. Thank heavens the Convergence Quartet are prepared to stick their necks out on our behalf....”
Simon H. Fell
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MOTSOL |
| STRAP ON [FMRCD219-0207] |
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| Stine Janvin Motland (vocal), Stäle Liavik Solberg (drums)
Co-produced by saxophone legend Frode Gjerstad, fellow Norwegian duo Motsol present their unique take on the duo format. With just drums and vocals, ‘Strap On’ presents through its eight tracks, a stunning take on improvisation featuring the drums of Stale Liavik Solberg and vocalist Stine Janvin Motland. Both original and satisfying, this debut recording is yet another great contribution from Norway, one of the worlds leading hotspots of modern music.
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CIRCUIT: ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE |
| KITAOKA [FMRCD218-0207] |
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| Pat Thomas (keyboards & Electronics), Gary Smith (guitar & Electronics),
Roberto Filoseta (piano & Electronics), Trevor Taylor (percussion & Electronics)
The third part in a series by the electro acoustic group Circuit, a group with largely variable personel. Like the other CD’s this music was recorded at Phoenix studio late last year and included the guitarist Gary Smith, the pianist Roberto Filoseta as well as the fantastic keyboardist Pat Thomas and leader/percussionist Trevor Taylor and is influenced by the japanese artist and illusionist Akiyoshi Kitaoka who perhaps serves as a metaphor for some of the musical ideas created by the group. All are experts in the improvisational process as well as being extremely proficient and prodigious in the use of electronics and live modulation, an area of great excitement these days with computer processor speeds fast enough to run extremely complex alogrithms in real time!
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PAUL DUNMALL, TONY ORRELL, JIM BARR |
| DEEP SEE [FMRCD217-0207] |
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| Paul Dunmall (tenor/soprano saxophones), Jim Barr (bass), Tony Orrell (drums)
This tremendous improvised trio recording features improv sax giant Paul Dunmall in yet another exchange of musical ideas with specially selected and equally vocal musicians. Jim Barr and Tony Orrell provide a top-notch rhythm section, and whether providing the stunning backdrops for Dunmall’s twisting horns or coming forth with their own strong bass and drum voices, this is a stunning trio performance. Deep See is another quality recording for Paul Dunmall’s sonic adventures on FMR.
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MARK O;LEARY |
| SIGNS [FMRCD214-1106] |
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| Mark O’Leary (guitar) Steuart Leibig (6-string electric contrabass), Alex Cline (drums, percussion)
From the poignent acoustic guitar opening track this album promises something special and Signs covers an amazing amount of musical ground from slow and haunting electronica to hi energy free improv. Recorded in California, the success of much of this music is down to the excellent playing of leading American musicians Alex Cline and Steuart Leibig. If anything Signs is an interpretation of Irish guitarist Mark O’Leary’s wide musical language from cool jazzer to post Derek Bailey, each track appears to succeed on its own merits
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SIMON ROSE (solo alto saxophone) |
| PROCESSION [FMRCD213-1106] |
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Frode Gjerstad (alto saxophone & clarinets), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Amit Sen (cello), Paal Nielsen Love (drums) |
| THE CELLO QUARTET [FMRCD212-0906] |
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| Norways expert reedsman Frode Gjerstad ventures into more new terrain here, for his latest FMR release. This time, along with the ever excellent percussion of Paal Nielsen Love, Gjerstad has recorded a wonderful set accompanied by the hauntingly beautiful sound of two cellos. The imaginative playing of Fred Lonberg-Holm and Amit Sen, captured in left and right speakers respectively, radiates a pitch perfect middle ground between the (always) fine alto sax/clarinet and drums of two of Europes heavyweight performers. |
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Paul Dunmall (tenor/soprano saxophones), Peter Brandt (bass) |
| OCCASSIONAL RAIN [FMRCD211-1106] |
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| “Creating true music for me is to play from the heart. Not fashion, not what you think people want to hear, but music played with total inner conviction. If that happens to produce some small progress in the development of music then fine, if not, it doesn’t matter as long as it is played with honesty. It may even help one’s spiritual development. I believe it has for me. You must be prepared for anything and let music lead you and not let the conscious mind get in the way.
I have been playing with Peter for almost 30 years in many different situations and he is an open minded and very creative musician. On this session there is a wonderful sensitivity and gentleness in the music and I hope you feel this too. Peace and joy” (PD)
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PAUL DUMALL (saxophones & Electronics), JONATHAN IMPETT (trumpet, electronics), TREVOR TAYLOR (percussion,electronics) NIK STEPHENS (double bass) |
| EPIPHANY [FMRCD209-0906] |
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| CIRCUIT: ELECTRO ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE
The music recorded here is the first in a series of recordings by CIRCUIT using varying personnel, all of whom had shown an interest in using live electronics to expand their music. The musicians were also chosen for their expertise in improvisation and their dedication and openness in creating and exploring new musical language.
The advent of much faster computer processors has challenged the musician to use this
speed to utilise far more sophisticated alogrithms and complex programs that can modulate sound in incredible ways and provide unprecedented real time control
What you hear here is exactly what was played live, there was no post production manipulation or overdubbing of any kind
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JAMES FAULKERSON/MICK GREEN/DAVID MURPHY |
| IN THE SAME BREATH [FMRCD208-0906] |
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| James Fulkerson (trombone), Mick Green, David Murphy
In the 1980s James Fulkerson taught at Dartington and naturally got to
know some of the musicians who lived nearby in Totnes and the
surrounding area. Mick Green and David Murphy are among the best of
these, luminaries of the local jazz scene as well as freeform
improvisers. Fulkerson eventually relocated to Amsterdam, but one night
in August 2004 the trombonist passed through Totnes, marking the
occasion with a concert of improvised music in the back room of the
Kingsbridge Inn. The music was recorded by Richard Douglas-Green and
the result is this CD of exquisite improvisation. |
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PAUL DUNMALL (tenor/soprano saxophones), PETER BRANDT (bass), TONY MARSH (percussion) |
| DEEP WELL [FMRCD207-0606] |
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| Three of Europe’s finest players in their fields unite for this tremendous improvised trio recording. Paul Dunmall has played regularly with both Peter Brandt and Tony Marsh for over 30 years and the ‘deep well’ of the title refers as much to the ‘deep well’ of experience they have as a unit, as it does to the ‘deep well’ of ideas and pure creativity they exhibit on these blistering seven tracks of sterling improvisation. An essential purchase for any true fan of the medium. |
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FRODE GJERSTAD (Clarinets), EIVIN ONE PEDERSEN (accordeon), KEVIN NORTON (vibraphone) |
| THE WALK [FMRCD206-0606] |
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| Kevin Norton’s recent releases on FMR have shown that he is a truly gifted and imaginative percussionist as well as vibesman. Here he joins forces with other FMR regular and improv giant Frode Gjerstad (here dedicated solely on clarinet) for a wholly international musical journey. Along with the luscious accordeon of Eivin One Pedersen, whose supplied the wonderfully original and quite beautiful textures to Gjerstad and Nick Stevens’ recent Calling Signals releases |
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BADAL ROYGEOFF WARREN/MARCELLO SEBASTIANI |
| FRAMMENTI DAMINI [FMRCD202-0506] |
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| Badal Roy (tablas, percussion), Geoff Warren (concert & alto flutes),
Marcello Sebastiani (double bass)
“Frammenti d’anima” or “Fragments of the soul” is the product of three
expert players working in different genres of music and this is their
second release after the well received Kolkata Rose. Speaking of the
music flautist Geoff Warren says:
“This is not a free jazz album, it’s an album of improvised ethno-jazz,
or, if you like, just three people playing music: an Englishman, an
Italian and an Indian. Cue for a joke? Potatoes, pasta and papadoms?
But there was no flag-waving when the music happened, just cohesion,
co-operation and chemistry. Sebastiani’s bass seems born to the tablas,
and Badal’s grooves just make the melodies happen |
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TIN MAN |
| GREEN ROOM [FMRCD201-0506] |
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| Chick Lyall (acoustic piano, multi timbral modules, sound synthesis,
computer programming, sound samples, flute), David Garrett (percussion,
prepared piano frame, prepared dulcimer, thumb piano, sound sampling)
Pianist Chick Lyall and percussionist David Garrett’s second offering
as Green Room continues their own personal exploration in the jazz and
electronics idiom with style and plenty of substance. Tin Man is the
rapid follow up to their recent debut release Undertow, in which the
pair take their contemporary jazz roots through improvised and
electronic soundscapes.
But this recording is perhaps different in the sense of being more
introvert, more subtle and with new directions and musical tangents.
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Gary Smith/Joe Gallivan/Pat Thomas |
| POWERFIELD [FMRCD199-0206] |
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| Gary Smith (stereo guitar), Joe Gallivan (moog synthesizer, electronic percussion),
Pat Thomas (keyboard & electronics)
Powerfield comprise of three highly individual performers and stalwarts of the electro-acoustic scene. Gary Smith has, over the last few years, led his own field of stereo processed guitar techniques, demonstrated on his previous FMR release ‘Forgotten Room with Chairs’ (FMRCD52-V0798). Pat Thomas has supplied his breathtaking electronics to much of the best electro-acoustic & improv releases over the course of his career. Along with the highly reputed talents of Joe Gallivan, here with his electronic percussion and moog, this is sterling stuff for all fans of the genre.
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Trevor Watts Drum Orchestra |
| BURUNDI MONDAY [FMRCD198-0206] |
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| Peter Knight (violin), Mmadi Kamara and Nana Tsiboe (African percussion), Ernest Mothle (bass),
Liam Genockey (drum), Trevor Watts (saxophone)
This CD represents in some ways a ‘first’, marking as this recording does a previously unreleased line-up, the Trevor Watts Drum Orchestra of the early 1980s.
This was a crucial turning point in Trevor’s evolving career, following a succession of Amalgam line-ups in which this alto saxophonist, with an already deserved international reputation for contributions to the evolution of free jazz and improvised music outside the American diaspora, was evolving a complex, polyrhythmically-driven approach to spontaneously generating new ideas capable of sustaining ongoing developing structures. |
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ENJAMBRE ACUSTICO URUKUNGOLO /TREVOR WATTS/GIBRAN CERVANTES/JAMIE HARRIS |
| MUTUALITY [FMRCD197-0206] |
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| Trevor Watts (saxophones), Gibran Cervantes (urukungolo), Jamie Harris (percussion)
Watts has forged his own path to become reknowned for his collaborations with musicians from different continents such as his Moire Music Drum Orchestra recordings with African drummers. Recent trips to Mexico led to him meeting percussionist Gibran Cervantes. His instrument, the urukungolo: a large wooden frame with a series of differently tuned Berimbaus are wired together, he can pluck or strike them with sticks, and bend notes. The sound is akin to a Grandfather Hammered Dulcimer or Finnish Kantele. (it also, on this CD, sounds like a slapped bass guitar). Recorded at the Lewes Literature Festival, they are joined by rising percussionist and Watts’ protegé Jamie Harris for this fine, original live recording.
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LARRY STABBINS/HOWARD RILEY/TONY WREN/MARK SANDERS |
| SLEEPER ST CYPRIANS [FMRCD196-I0506] |
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| Larry Stabbins (saxophone), Howard Riley (piano), Tony Wren (bass),
Mark Sanders (drums)
This live quartet recording captures four of Britain’s elite players in
full flow and at their highest creative peak. Recorded in the fabulous
St. Cyprians venue. Look out for a later release by a similar line up
recorded in the now defunct Vortex club in London’s Stoke Newington.
This music will enthrall all lovers of improvised music and the balance
between these acoustic players is perfect in all respects. A splendid
affirmation of the quality of modern improvised music.
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PAUL DUNMALL/PAUL ROGERS |
| FAR [FMRCD195-i0206] |
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| Paul Dunmall (soprano saxophone, bass clarinet), Paul Rogers (7 string ALL bass) |
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Chick Lyall David Garret: GREEN ROOM |
| UNDERTOW [FMRCD193-0206] |
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| UNDERTOW is the latest release from GREENROOM after an interval of ten years. Originally working as a trio,percussionist David Garrett,along with pianist Chick Lyall and guitarist David Baird forged a musical language which drew from such wide sources as jazz,modern 'Classical music' and the radical sonic experiments of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Conventional instruments such as piano, drums and guitars could be combined with electronic sounds driven by computer as well as newly constructed instruments and found objects.
Since 1998 Chick Lyall and David Garrett have continued to evolve the music of Greenroom by means of a combination of live improvisation with prepared computer generated sequences. On UNDERTOW they produce an even wider range of colour than before. Multi timbral explorations are combined with detuned acoustic instruments,flutes,sampling and electronic programming. Composition and improvisation exist simultaneously and the music is somehow arrived at through a dialectic of structure and freedom.
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PAUL DUNMALL/TREVOR TAYLOR/PAUL ROGERS |
| ZOOCHOSIS [FMRCD189-i0106] |
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| Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Trevor Taylor (percussion & electronics),
Paul Rogers (7 string ALL double bass)
Fresh from their recent highly succesful BBC radio 3 broadcast witht the 7 piece expanded group heres the trio recording .what does zoochosis mean?
“Zoochosis”: You’re likely to find this word used by animal rights activists in reference to what they see as the degrading effect of zoos on the animals they contain.
Many animals, especially the large carnivores, become deeply depressed, even psychotic, as the result of captivity. Symptoms of zoochosis include nervous pacing, head rocking, and self-mutilation.
In this recording the three musicians experiment with a different form of Improvisation than they have been known for, by multitracking different sections over a period of time instead of in one live session. This has been done deliberatley to 'build' various sections and atmosheres in a form of composition created yet still by Improvisation. The results are stunning!!!! |
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FEAT. DAVE LIEBMAN |
| TONY BIANCO'S MONKEY DANCE [FMRCD188-i0106] |
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| Tony Bianco - drums, bass & piano,
Dave Leibman - saxes & wooden flute, Eric St-Laurent - guitar
Ali Keita - Balaphon, Adam Lennox - Producer
Expert US drummer Tony Bianco’s great new band was put together with his long term friends, producer Adam Lennox and saxophone legend Dave Leibman. A culmination of three friends appreciation of each others work. Bringing in Eric St-Laurent on bass and the great balaphon player, Ali Keita, do a piece with Dave. The resulting recording has an uncanny quality. With the pieces concentrating more on ‘form’ due to Bianco’s suberbly devised repetitive chord changes, Dave’s sense of space and Eric’s taste for rawness bring out that primal simplicity that brings the whole thing into focus.
“I have for the theme of the recording Hanuman the monkey god, who serves the cause of Rama. Each piece reflects his adventure in the great Indian spiritual and romantic epic ‘The Ramayana’.” Tony Bianco
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Paul Dunamll/Paul Rogers/Tony Bianco |
| COSMIC CRAFTSMEN [FMRCD185-i1105] |
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| Paul Dunmall (saxophones), Paul Rogers (6-string bass), Tony Bianco (drums)
A superbly recorded slice of free improvisation from three of the leading exponents of creative music. Recorded at the Jackson lane venue in Highgate, London during a wonderful free improv event organised by the music specialist record shop Sound 323.
Seperated into three sections, the performance begins with a performance of Tony Biancos Drone style drumming, followed by Paul Rogers and Paul Dunmall’s exquisite dynamic exchanges on 6-string bass and saxophone respectively. The recording is rounded off by a glorious trio performance. which cements the players’ reputations as the ‘cosmic craftsmen’ we already know them to be.
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Elton Dean, Tony Bianco, Jon Wilkinson |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS FREEBEAT [FMRCD182-i1105] |
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| The concept of Freebeat came through Tony Bianco’s realisation that time signature is another way of phrasing. “In Freebeat you will feel the pulse, it kind of feels like 4/4, but when you try to count you’ll find that you can’t count anything into it. It’s a combination of beats and phrasing, more like the way speaking occurs. Three of these pieces freature my bass parts looped (sometimes up to a hundred bars), then I play the drums to the bass track, afterwards adding keyboard chords, then Elton and Jon add their parts where I was able to open up the pieces into more of a free zone, while still feeling the pulse.. All tracks were first takes by all on board. The great work that both Elton Dean and Jon Wilkinson contributed is obvious. Straight and Free. Chaos and Order. Liberty and Responsibility combining for Freebeat.” Tony Bianco
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Roger Smith/Adam Bohman |
| LIVE [FMRCD180-i0905] |
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| Roger Smith (guitar), Adam Bohman (found objects)
Recorded live at The Dixon Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea this exhillarating
music features the unlikely combination of Roger Smith?s acoustic
guitar and Adam Bohman?s found objects and although this is their first
CD release as a duo they have played together
extensively.
Needless to say, Smiths totally original and exhaustive exploration of
the sound possibilities of the acoustic guitar are equally combated by
Adam Bohmans vast array of fascinating household and industrial
instruments. Together they traverse the well worn boundaries of noise
and music, searching for pertinent music landscapes, no matter how
abstract. A wonderful combination!
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ERIK QVIK/STEVE HUBBACK: |
| WONDEROUS SOUNDS [FMRCD179-I0805] |
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| This duo recording features two of the most original percussionists on the planet, the explosive drummer/percussionist/sculptor/smith Steve Hubback, a Welshman living in Iceland, and one of Swedens leading drummer/percussionists Erik Qvik. For this recording Steve uses his usual set up of sound sculptures made entirely by himself while Erik employs a more traditional acoustic drum kit with added sound sculpture and effects. Their styles are surprisingly different, but they quickly establish a healthy empathy and the wide range of stimulating percussion improvisations proves without doubt their status in the world of creative music. |
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| CALLING SIGNALS [FMRCD177-I0505] |
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| Coming after the major success of recent groups involving Frode Gjerstad such as ÔUltralyd' and his ÔSt Louis' Trio on FMR this is strangely different! Perhaps its the sound of the bandeon played by the wonderful Norwegian Ilvind Hendriksen that provides a more laid back and introspective texture for the groups overall sound. And again it is less frenetic, more folky and opens new frontiers for group improvisation and its sound palette.Fans of Frode Gjerstad will, however, not be disappointed, as with musicians such as as Paal Neilsen Love as well as Frode, British bass player Nick Stevens and the inclusion of Hendriksen, the outcome could only be as it is: highly stimulating improvisation, that like much of Frode Gjerstads music, breaks new ground! |
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TONY BIANCO |
| TONY BIANCO: AVYAYAH - DRONE DRUMS [FMRCD176-I0505] |
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| My concept for this recording is that each drum piece serves as a meditation. A flame. An invocation. Inspired from the images from the great spiritual epic, The Mahabharata I called this record 'The Avyayah Drone Drums. 'Avyaya' is a Hindu word (one of the names of Vishnu) meaning constant, no change, that is a drone. I believe that the drone is an aboriginal or primal instinct in ancient music. One is of course reminded of the didgeridoo and of the distinctive tampura drone in Indian music. Along with the images of the Mahabharata I keep a war-like trance (by keeping a drone in the drums) consistent in all pieces. I hope this recording is enjoyed and hope that in some way my over-active imagination may have invoked some valid energy from the images of this great epic. Tony Bianco |
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FRODE GJERSTAD/SABIR MATEEN |
| GOOD QUESTION [FMRCD175-I0705] |
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| Following on from the excellent duo release with the legendary John Stevens, comes this dynamite duo recording with fellow saxophone guru Sabir Mateen recorded in New York City. Featuring ten improvisations which ably convey both players unique styles, skilfully interweaving, blending and playing off of each other in ways only the most competent saxophonists can. This is a must for all serious saxophone enthusiasts, and a wonderful document of two of the worlds most able players in the ever interesting duo setting and a continuation of Frode Gjerstads brilliant Duo Series. |
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| WATT?: THE LONGEST MAUVAIS QUART DHEURE [FMRCD174-I0505] |
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| Ibadet Ramadani (Voice/live electronics), Jorge Isaac (Blockflutes/live electronics), Charly Zastrau (Keyboards/live electronics), Jos Zwaanenburg (Flutes/live electronics), Tom Myrmel (Sound diffusion/tech support/anything else) Using a combination of strong software and traditional instruments to create a surprising world of electro-acoustic sound, songs and improvisation, the music of The Longest Mauvais Quart d'Heure, originally a music theatre piece uses E.M. Forster, B monster-movies, Beckett's shorter plays and blatantly old-fashioned science-fiction novels to supply the models for the sound, structure and imagery in this stunning performance. Within this wonderful work WATT? uses a live sampling program and a video-to-MIDI program developed by STEIM Amsterdam in which the vocalists movements are recorded by a digital video camera that triggers sounds stored in a computer. Although meant as a live performance piece it is presented here in a special CD version which preserves the feel of its original format to spellbinding effect. |
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MAYAS/NUTTERS/OLSEN/GALVEZ |
| ITS DIRTY IN THE DIFFERENT TRADITION [FMRCD173-I0505] |
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| Recorded in Studio Kockjoy in Berlin this brand new, firey quartet have burst onto the improvising scene to great effect. Abstract yet clearly a group working as a whole, Magda Mayas, Carlos Galvez, Koen Nutters and Morten J. Olsen clearly live inside the music they create, the players act as improvised music while the music acts as a real-time anchor ! .This music isn't easy to sum up in words, though the title of the recording gives the best description of this wonderful collection of seven joyous improvisations: |
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KEVIN NORTON |
| QUARK BERCUSE [FMRCD172-I0505] |
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| This is a brand new solo recording by one of North America's leading percussionists. Indeed, I could say that this music is inspired specifically by three musicians (Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton and Haewon Min), but it is ultimately my music and I take responsibility for it. I've been developing this total percussion in improvised music idea for many years now and I feel that it's been encouraged by people like Anthony (amongst many others). This is an important journey for me and it will continue. Quark Bercuse is a culmination of where the musician has been heading in the last few years and an important platform for Norton's musical research and communication. |
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PAUL DUNMALL/TREVOR TAYLOR |
| ILLUMINATIONS [FMRCD171-I0805] |
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| Although old musical colleagues for over thirty years this is the first duo recording featuring in this case the saxophones and bagpipes of Paul Dunmall with the large sound sculpture, percussion and live electronics of Trevor Taylors new set up. The last recorded outing was with the larger ensemble, the Intuitive Art Ensemble (also on FMR), but here we have the more difficult medium of mixing live electronic sound with acoustic playing and the two succeed spectacularly. Dunmall of course is no newcomer to improvisation with drummers and percussionists and is often propelled to great creative heights when in the company of stimulating percussionists! But this is normally in a more formal jazz acoustic situation, so in that respect this is a different kind of music perhaps reflecting an even wider range of sound palette. |
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ROB HALL |
| THE BEATON PATH [FMRCD170-C0505] |
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| The Beaten Path is the much anticipated release from the Scottish-based contemporary duo of Rob Hall and Chick Lyall . Pooling their respective writing talents, both musicians contribute compositions, interspersed with a series of short, free improvisations. Their expressive range merges jazz, contemporary classical and Celtic sonorities, and this new CD recording exemplifies the fluid and engaging language these two fine musicians have developed over a two year period of performing together. The duo of Rob Hall/Chick Lyall has performed throughout the UK from concert halls to ceilidh rooms and is equally at home in jazz and multi-arts venues. British saxophonist Rob Hall has made a substantial impression on both the local and European scenes in recent years The Guardian. Chick Lyall is the most adventurous Scottish pianist of the current generation Penguin Guide to Jazz. |
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PAUL DUNMALL |
| SOLO SOPRANO [FMRCD167-I0805] |
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| The exceptional British improviser is captured on this recording during a magnificent solo set at The Priory in Southend on Sea during its 5th International Jazz Festival. Concentrating for this recording on solo soprano saxophone, an instrument for which he excels, this recording is a must for all collectors of this virtuoso saxophone collossus. Nothing more need be said but to simply listen to one of the worlds great virtuosos on a solo voyage of great beauty! |
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GEORGE BURT/RAYMOND MACDONALD SEPTET |
| THE GREAT SHARK HUNT [FMRCD165-0305] |
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| George Burt (guitar), Raymond MacDonald (alto/soprano saxes), George Lyle (double bass), Nicola MacDonald (voice/melodica), Bill Wells (piano), Daniel Padden (clarinet/voice/percussion) with Lol Coxhill (soprano sax). Recorded in East Kilbride Arts Centre, this is the fifth chapter in the celebrated saxophonist Lol Coxhills adventures with Burt and MacDonald. This new recording features the hugely successful pianist Bill Wells along with the presiding genius of The One Ensemble - Daniel Padden, a stalwart of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. Lol plays his bent soprano on this session (like a tiny alto) and features the first ever recorded duet between bandleaders George Burt and Raymond MacDonald |
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DIDKOVSKYROGERS/NORTON: |
| THE BRIGHT LIGHTS, THE BIG TIME [FMRCD163-I0505] |
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| Four of the greatest improvisers around meet in New York. I will say a few words about this music ... I love Nick and Paul as human beings and musicians. We decided to do a concert at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City on January 31, 2004. It was wonderful; the space had a wonderful vibe and the listeners received the music warmly and enthusiastically. I decided that we should record in a studio to capture all the details of the sounds we can make because live recordings (as exciting as they can be) tend to miss the quiet stuff. I knew it would be great because of the humanity and talent. Turn off the lights and listen..... Kevin Norton |
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FRODE GJERSTAD/JOHN STEVENS |
| LETS JUST KEEP GOING [FMRCD162-I0405] |
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| Norwegian saxophonist Frode Gjerstad recorded this wonderful, spirited meeting with his friend, the late, great John Stevens in 1994 and it is finally seeing a release on FMR. John and I did a few duos over the years and this is the last one we did. It was a warm up for a concert we were going to play with Kent Carter on May 2nd (which was released on Cadence as 'Last Detail'), I had just got my ADAT and this was the first recording I made on the machine. Listening back to the tape now, brings back a lot of memories. In between the tracks there is a bit of talking and joking. As we drove to the airport we talked a bit about future projects and he commented about what we had just done over the last few days, It's good what we've done, let's just keep going. In retrospect, those words get another meaning late-on Frode Gjerstad |
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THE DARTINGTON TRIO Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Paul Dunmall |
| LIVE AT THE PRIORY [FMRCD161-I0205] |
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| Recorded live at The Priory, Priory Park, Southend-on-Sea as part of the 3rd Southend International Jazz Festival on Sunday 8th August 2004. |
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FREDY STUDER/HAMID DRAKE/MICHAEL ZERANG: |
| DRUMMIN' CHICAGO [FMRCD160-0505] |
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| Fredy Studer (drums, cymbals, gongs, metal, multiple percussion), Hamid Drake (drums, cymbals, metal, frame drum, tabla, multiple percussion), Michael Zerang (drums, cymbals, gongs, metal, darabuka, zither, tambourine, whistles, bells, multiple percussion).This recording in Chicago while Fredy Studer had a residency took place over the course of one day and night, and covers an enormous breadth of stylistic terrain, from heavy textural improvising to deep and inventive grooves. In some places, the three musicians contribute in extremely different and readily audible ways, while elsewhere their personalities merge into a startling group sound. From Zerang's amazing friction-percussion on snare drum, through Studer's other-worldly evocations on a giant gong, played with a mallet that's outfitted with a superball on its end, to Drake's infectious reggae rhythm on drum-kit (and this is just on track one!!) John Corbett |
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VANISHING PICTURES |
| LIKE ONE FEATHER [FMRCD159-I0105] |
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| Third outing for percussionist Dirk Wachtelaers superb Vanishing Pictures project. This time he has selected an even wider range of musicians from all over the world. Traditional Chinese music merging with free improvisation, North African vocals meeting laptop electronics. It’s music that can only be made today — impossible without the past — indicating a possible future. Also features a magnificent live track “And The Sun”, recorded in 2000 at the Beursschouwburg, Brussels, a classic electro-acoustic performance by a truly stellar line-up that includes Philipp Wachsmann and turntable and electronics guru Otomo Yoshihide and DJ Grazzhoppa. This is a collection of staggeringly executed music, taking in all the corners of world, electronic, and free improvised music to create a beautiful, complete whole. An album that not only crosses continents but bridges the divide between them |
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METAL MOVES |
| ILLUMINATOR II [FMRCD148-i0206] |
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| Steve Hubback and Bertus Fridael ( Sonorous Sculptures created by Steve Hubback)
Music created with fire and anvil. Metal Moves perform unique music with a deep energy and feel, percussion music that is something unto itself. All the instruments and musical sculptures are forged by hand by percussionist, sculptor and bronze/blacksmith Steve Hubback who has invented an amazing collection of gong and cymbal sculptures, a multitude of one off percussion sculptures and mobiles, Iron Mountain Horns, resonating steel sculptures and harps.
Steve Hubback and Bertus Fridael return with the third release from Metal Moves on FMR, where they continue to explore their ever expanding sound pallette of Hubbacks spellbinding sound sculptures. Always a unique experience ‘Illuminator II’ is not to be missed!!
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AMALGAM: WIPEOUT |
| AMALGAM: WIPEOUT [FMRCD11-L0203] |
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| Trevor Watts (saxophones), Keith Rowe (guitars), Liam Genockey (drums) plus Colin McKenzie (bass), George Lyle (bass)
Without question one of the most important releases for Trevor Watts’ Amalgam and available for the first time on CD, this excellent 3CD digibox set was originally released on Impetus in the early eighties. The three discs feature live recordings of twelve original Amalgam performances which originally consisted of six LPs, and a booklet duplicated exactly here. Featuring excellent guitar improvisor Keith Rowe and regular drummer Liam Genockey, plus the bass work of Colin MacKenzie and George Lyle.
This is an unmissable part of Amalgam’s output, one of the most creative periods for the band and of British jazz itself!
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