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Charlotte Keeffe Right Here Right Now Quartet: Alive! In The Studio

Read "Alive! In The Studio" reviewed by John Sharpe


One of the finest up and coming trumpeters on the UK scene, Charlotte Keeffe's résumé includes an ever increasing circle of collaborators including bassist Olie Brice, reedman Colin Webster and multi-instrumentalists Alex Ward and Martin Archer (the latter also boss of the Discus imprint). For the second album from her Right Here, Right Now Quartet, comprising guitarist Moss Freed, bassist Ashley John Long and drummer Ben Handysides, she aims to replicate a live set in the studio. If this is ...

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Moss Freed / Union Division: Micromotives

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A question any composer for improvisers must face is whether they can create something more worthwhile than what they might come up with if left to themselves. It can be a tough call. For some, such as Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra or Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, the ultimate conclusion was no, while for others such as Anthony Braxton and Barry Guy the answer has been far less clear cut. British guitarist Moss Freed falls somewhere between the two ...

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Let Spin: Steal The Light

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Formed in 2014, London's Let Spin is an electric quartet peopled by musicians who emerged around a decade earlier as part of a scene which was rather lazily dubbed “punk jazz" by British music journalists. The music was certainly loud, irreverent and in-your-face, but it was played by musicians who were conservatoire graduates, a demographic not associated with punk in its original knuckle- scraping manifestation. Let Spin's Ruth Goller and Chris Williams were members of two of ...

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I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Moss Freed

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01. Lionel Loueke--Heritage (EMI--2012). Sono diventato dipendente da questo album dopo aver visto il trio (con Mark Guiliana e Michael Olatuja) al Vortex di Londra l'anno scorso. Vi è un quantità smisurata di sentimento nel modo di suonare di Loueke mentre la scrittura è moderna con memorabili sequenze melodiche e groove danzabili. Gli assolo di Loueke spaziano da ambigue sequenze di accordi a virtuosistiche poliritmie mentre l'affiatamento del trio è palpabile in ogni momento. 02. Melt ...

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Moss Project: What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?

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As Bo Diddley so wisely stated, “You can't judge a book by looking at the cover." Moss Project's What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes? may look like a book, and a very beautiful one at that. It may feel like a book--it may even smell like a book. But it's a CD. Actually, it's a CD with a book attached.Guitarist Moss Freed leads Moss Project. He originally formed the band when he was studying at ...

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Moss Project: What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?

Read "Moss Project: What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes?" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


The idea of creating a gesamtkunstwerk, a synthesis of the arts, is not something new. Classical composer Richard Wagner envisioned his operas as a meeting between music, literature and the visual expression of painting; since Wagner, many artists have tried to unite the different artistic languages into a total work of art. While some artists, like Wagner, find their way into the gesamtkunstwerk through a grand philosophical idea, guitarist Moss Freed developed his concept through a natural, ...

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