SLW

SLW: Fifteen point nine grams

by John Eyles
November 18, 2009

Recorded live in France in July 2007, this is the second release from SLW, the follow-up to its debut, SLW (Formed, 2008), recorded live in October 2006. The quartet, with its line-up of Burkhard Beins, Lucio Capece, Rhodri Davies and Toshimaru Nakamura, merits the title “super group"; however outmoded and gauche that phrase may seem, it does describe the conglomeration of improvising talent on display here.

SLW is short for “sounds like water," and its debut lived up to that ...