Tim Crowther, Steve Franklin & Tony Marsh
Release Date: 10 July 2013
Label: SLAM Productions
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5028386026327
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
The guitar-keys-drums trio of Tim Crowther, Steve Franklin and Tony Marsh (drums) had been playing together since 1998, brought together by a shared passion for hard electric jazz-rock and free improvisation.
Their intention was to create new electric improvised music that excites and engages the listener and that comes from somewhere other than the obviously recognisable and comforting. The music is not intended to convey meaning but simply to express aliveness and possibility. It comes not from pre-planning or the concepts of any individual band member, but rather from a collective free-fall, with abandon. Amherst Dislodged is their second CD and demonstrates a sure development of the music.
Recorded at Amherst Lodge, Roehampton, London 2005.
Tim Crowther: guitar, guitar synth
Steve Franklin: keyboards
Tony Marsh: drums
"This is a completely improvised date and sounds pretty great...I am reminded at times of some of the freer areas from the fusion era of the 70's, there is some very focused improv that sounds partially pre-planned. There are some pretty inspired and crazed moments throughout...Opened minded fusion-fans should dig this." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
"This should appeal to free jazzers, nujazzers and jazz rockers in equal measure. Pitched stylistically somewhere between Tony Williams Lifetime and Last Exit, this is exciting, visceral music...Marsh is simply one of our best drummers, like a cross between John Marshall and Jon Christensen, and Crowther and Franklin are inspired here. The range of sounds and rhythms on a track such as "Discomfort Zone" are at times powerfully orchestral and at others spare and abstract. This is amazing stuff at best, scary and angry but with a ghastly beauty as well." - Duncan Heining, Jazzwise
Tracklisting
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Lol Coxhill & George Haslam
Improgressive
Howard Riley & Elton Dean
Jarius Sharif
Louis Moholo-Moholo
Matthew Bourne
Various Artists
The Residents
The Residents
Sun Ra
Elton Dean
