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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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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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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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PAT THOMAS |
| Plays The Music Of Derek Bailey & Thelonious Monk [FMRCD259-0508] |
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| Pat Thomas (piano, keyboards) The Derek Bailey transciptions were performed at the Holywell music room in October 2005 as part of a concert organised by Fran Ryan, who wanted to hear the celebrated pianist play piano in a more composed setting. Thomas agreed to play music based on Derek Bailey’s early recordings and brilliantly transcribed by Chris Burn as well as the music of Thelonious Monk |
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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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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),
Maria Castro (electronics & arrangement on Søvngjenger)
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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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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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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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JASPER VAN'T HOF & FREDY STUDER |
| Pangramm [fmrCD264-0808] |
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| Jasper Van’t Hof (keyboards, synthesizer, sound modules)
Fredy Studer (drums, percussion, electronic devices)
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