Release Date: 20 January 2023
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078001425
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
On July 16 2021, Shiver (guitarist Chris Sharkey, bassist Andy Champion and drummer Joost Hendrickx) met up with pianist Matthew Bourne at his house in Airedale, Yorkshire.
Hungry to make music following various lockdowns, cancellations and disappointments, the quartet embarked on a ferocious two-day journey of exploratory music-making. The weather was good, the connection was immediate. There was much laughing, tea-drinking and storytelling. In the evening, the stove was lit and we listened to music: Stanley Clarke, Paul Simon, Sarah Vaughan, Scott Walker, Eugene McDaniels...
Matthew shifts from piano to Memorymoog throughout. Each member of the band spends time in the foreground and background without ever dominating. The group is what's important here, everyone improvising without explicitly soloing. Ideas come, are explored, then fade before new ideas emerge with confidence and patience.
This music is a good memory from a difficult time and it's Discus Music's pleasure to bring it to you now.
Matthew Bourne: piano, Memorymoog
Andy Champion: electric bass
Joost Kendrickx: drums
Chris Sharkey: electric guitar
Press:
"This is invigorating music for the here and now experimenting in form and idiom." - Marlbank
"All the ingredients of an electrojazzy-ambient dreamscape." - Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy
Tracklisting
Army Of Briars
Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne
Theo May's Odd Unit
Charlotte Keeffe
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
Stephen Grew
Martin Archer & Walt Shaw
Shiver & Matthew Bourne
