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Quatuor Accorde: Angel Gate

Read "Angel Gate" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Bassist Tony Wren takes a very unassuming leadership role on this free improv date with the spot-assembled Quatuor Accorde. The Angel Gate project was originally conceived and recorded in St. Michael and All Angels Church in London (thus the double entendre of the title). However, technical problems forced the quartet to regroup in a studio for some of the tracks, since background noise can be deadly to such a quiet (and thoroughly unamplified) sound. No matter; the live spirit of ...

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Quatuor Accorde: Angel Gate

Read "Angel Gate" reviewed by John Eyles


There is an increasingly high profile for improvising string players other than guitarists and double bassists. Slowly but surely, it is developing through the work of players such as Rhodri Davies, Phil Durrant, Susanna Ferrar, Ivor Kallin, Kaffe Matthews, Marcio Mattos, Phil Wachsman and Mark Wastell. Witness the recent Strings with Evan Parker album, and all-string groups such as IST (Davies and Wastell plus Simon H. Fell) and Quatuor Accorde. This fine album can only raise that profile further.

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