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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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LADEN WITH RAIN (FMR249-0208) |
| STIAN WESTERHUS - TERJE ISUNGSET [FMRCD249-0208] |
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| .TERJE ISUNGSET is one of Europe’s most accomplished and innovative percussion-
ists. With over two decades experience in jazz and Scandinavian music he is taking
these types of music far beyond their traditional boundaries, becoming more like a
cross between a sound artist and a shaman.
STIAN WESTERHUSon the other hand is one of Norway’s hardest working young
improvisers working in bands such as Puma, Monolithic, Bladed, Khan and Fraud as
well as in solo format. Having been blessed with little or no respect for the guitar
Stian Westerhus seeks to push the boundaries for live use of the instrument with-
out loosing the melodic instinct. On this album he uses mainly the baritone guitar as
his main weapon of choice.
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CROSSING (FMR 247-1107) |
| PAUL DUNMALL, EVELYN CHANG, TREVOR TAYLOR [FMRCD247-1107] |
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| .The title 'Crossing' was penned by the group as a metaphor for the way
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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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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WISHFUL THINKING (FMR 255-0108) |
| ORLA MURPHY [FMRCD255-0108] |
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This is up and coming Vocalist, Orla Murphy’s debut album, which she co-produced with
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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THAT IS A STEP (FMRCD253-0108) |
| PETTER O HANNA [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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