Release Date: 10 July 2013
Label: SLAM Productions
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5028386024125
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
Unique free jazz duo performances from Paul Dunmall - border pipes (track 1, 5), soprano saxophone (2, 8, 9), tenor comemeuse (3), double bamboo pipe (4), tenor saxophone (6), soprano comemeuse (7) and Philip Gibbs - acoustic & electric guitars. Recorded at Victoria Room Studio, Bristol, 12 Nov 1999 & 21 Jan 2000.
Press:
"Formidable reed player Paul Dunmall." - Julian Cowley, The Wire
"On the saxophone pieces - which, according to Bruce Coates's notes, are 'more directly dialogical' - the roles are clear: guitar accompanies horn. On tenor, Dunmall's pointed sound and rapid-fire lines build up around an electric guitar that moves from Bill Frisell's work on The Big Gundown to wildly eccentric rockabilly. But then the duo allows a spare, simple beauty to emerge; they're unafraid of momentary pleasures, a beautiful tone, perhaps or a lyrical line. Gibbs is a hardy companion; part-time percussionist, melodist, and rhythm-maker, without much prompting he's driving the pieces along, incessantly feeding Dunmall volleys or whispers, fuzz or cleanly plucked strings, whatever the moment needs." - Greg Buium, Cadence
Tracklisting
Esmond Selwyn
Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Philip Gibbs & Hamid Drake
Lol Coxhill
Lol Coxhill, George Haslam, Howard Riley & Paul Rutherford
Various Artists
Lol Coxhill & George Haslam
Improgressive
Howard Riley & Elton Dean
Matthew Bourne
Various Artists
The Residents
The Residents
Sun Ra
Elton Dean
Soft Head
Mike Osborne Trio
