You will note I’ve started placing the backlog of old reviews on this blog rather than on the self-constructed part of this blog. This is because I’ve gradually released that my design of the music-reviews section is simply not workable in its current format: my penchant for cross-referencing reviews & adding in extra links to [...]
Mark Whitecage and the Bi-Coastal Orchestra
Bushwacked: A Spoken Opera
Acoustics ELE 416CD
In Our Name / 0 for 5000 / Follow the Money / Jesus / Who’s the War For? / Fugue / Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me (58:07)
Whitecage, as, cl; Scott Steele, g; Bill Larimer, p; Rozanne Levine, cl; Robert Mahaffay, d; plus spoken-word contributions [...]
Tim Crowther, Steve Franklin, Tony Marsh
Amherst Dislodged
Slam SLAMCD 263
Yearn / Four Life Skills Missing / Amherst Dislodged / Jezebels / Discomfort Zone / Rankles / Detection Evaded / The Desert Nuts / May Be Illegal in Your Locality (66:28)
Crowther, g, g synth; Franklin, kybd; Marsh, d. England, Jan 2005.
This is a jazz-rock session from three [...]
Paraphrase (Tim Berne, Drew Gress, Tom Rainey)
Pre-emptive Denial
Screwgun SC70016
Trading on All Fours / We Bow to Royalties (48:20)
Berne, as; Gress, b; Rainey, d. New York, May 2005.
Ictus
Live
ILK tcb 008
Île / Ping Pånk – Orbituary / The Sky Below – Restoration / Meltdown / Resolution in Retrospect (49:58)
Lotte Anker, ss, ts; Marc Ducret, g; Peter Friis [...]
Lindsey Horner
Don’t Count on Glory
Cadence Jazz Records CJR 1188
Last Look Home / Don’t Count on Glory / I Stand by Your Window / Gyp the Blood / Cuong Vu / Green Chimneys / Shadow Girl / Too, Too Blue (68:59)
Horner, b, bari s, b cl, whistle, tin whistle.
On all tracks except 4: Marty Ehrlich, as; [...]
FME (Free Music Ensemble)
Cuts
Okka Disk OD12061
Other Side Up – Boadas / Necessary? – Reset – Slip / Static (A Hundred Ways) Static / Broken (Sentence) Broken / Heavy Light (74:15)
Ken Vandermark, ts, bari s, cl, b cl; Nate McBride, b; Paal Nilssen-Love, d. Oslo, Norway, 25-26 Oct 2004.
Dave Rempis and Tim Daisy
Back to the Circle
Okka [...]