The Contest of Pleasures

The Contest of Pleasures: Albi Days

by John Eyles
August 4, 2006

For Albi Days, their second Potlatch recording, The Contest of Pleasures (now the trio's name, formerly an album title; you may recall a similar thing happened with “Foxes Fox" ) adopted a very different methodology to the first, reflecting some of the shifts that have taken place in improv in the five years between the releases. Whereas the first album was recorded live and released as a faithful record of the live event, as was the norm ...