Badland

Badland: The Society Of The Spectacle

by Glenn Astarita
January 22, 2006

This free-flowing trio has been doing its thing for about ten years amid intermittent personnel changes. The estimable bassist Simon H. Fell serves as the anchor and has been doing so for quite some time. Badland explores the dicey side of jazz and improvisation, where deft expressionism shines forth in multi-hued designs. The members of the trio pursue soft soundscapes with depth and contrast, manifested by percussionist Steve Noble's acute cymbal shadings. Fell's creaky arco bass lines and organic bass ...

Badland: The Society of the Spectacle

by John Eyles
January 13, 2006

Badland is an occasional trio which has now been recording for over a decade. The Society of the Spectacle, recorded in 2003, is the group's third album, the previous two having been released on Simon H. Fell's own Bruce's Fingers label.

Simon Rose provides the sleeve notes here, a series of pithy one-liners that sketch out the group ethos--for instance, “Sometimes improvisers with limited experience play poignant performances. Whether this is intended to refer to Rose himself is unclear; while ...

Badland at Hull Art Lab, 9/28

Source: All About Jazz
August 26, 2005

BADLAND 8pm Wednesday 28th September Hull Art Lab 53 Humber Street Hull HU1 1TT Admission: £3. Simon Rose - alto & soprano saxophones Simon H. Fell - double bass Steve Noble - drums Badland were formed in 1994, with Simon Rose, Simon Fell and Mark Sanders on drums. The group's activity centres around free jazz and the reinterpretation of elements of the modern jazz repertoire. Steve Noble replaced Mark in 1999. “Put this alongside the most important trios in the ...
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