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Paul Wigens (drums, percussion, electronics) / Pete Judge (trumpet, electronics)

Eyebrow is a trumpet and drums duo based in Bristol, UK, formed in 2009. Its music evolves out of improvisations which are reassembled into structured pieces with an unexpectedly cinematic sweep, like journeys through slowly- changing landscapes.

New album “Garden City”, recorded at Invada Studios in Bristol by TJ Allen, is now released on New York’s Ninety & Nine Records

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Eyebrow: Garden City

Read "Garden City" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Mention the idea of the “garden city" to the good people of Britain and the likeliest (polite) response will be “Welwyn" or perhaps “Letchworth." Bristol, home to Eyebrow, isn't such a settlement but Garden City is the name the duo has given to its fourth album release. Pete Judge and Paul Wigens formed Eyebrow in 2009. The pair have extensive experience in jazz, punk and folk music--Judge is a member of Bristol jazzers Get The Blessing and has ...

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OCMA's Quiet Sale of 18 Paintings Raises Eyebrows of Suspicion

OCMA's Quiet Sale of 18 Paintings Raises Eyebrows of Suspicion

Source: Michael Ricci

Silver and Gold by Granville Redmond is a classic of California Impressionism, an expert says. Another puts its worth at $1 million. The painting was one of 18 that were collectively sold for $963,000.

The sale of the California Impressionist paintings to a private collector is seen as a snub to some in art circles.

The Orange County Museum of Art was tooling along, a sporty little contender in the contemporary art world, its reputation sparkling from the good reviews ...

“haunting sounds trickle down the spine like dripping stalactites. With just one drummer, one trumpet player and a host of expertly controlled effects boxes, they create a sound that is both gentle and unsettling. This band would be perfect to stumble across at a festival during daybreak, jamming with the dawn chorus” (Morning Star)

“Amazingly symphonic: the ideal place for this music would be a cathedral, or a clifftop, or maybe an asteroid” (Bristol Post)

“this duo have been spellbinding audiences wherever they play. Their combination of deftly-sculptured soundscape trumpet loops and subversively strict rhythms opens up a sonic world of amazing variety thanks to their mutual dexterity and economy of well-framed ideas” (Venue)

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Garden City

Ninety and Nine Records
2015

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