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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 33 cd

alan wilkinson / john edwards / steve noble “live at cafe oto” compact disc

  • spellbound (31.30)
  • recoil (7.53)
bo’weavil press release...
live at cafe oto
wilkinson / edwards / noble

the live music experience is what it’s all about! let’s face it, the recording, the thing (cd, vinyl, ipod), that you’re listening to now is a luxury – a convenient form of storing and a flawed attempt at revisiting the ecstasy of the live experience. live music is at the heart of civilization and culture. live music is real music – the recording is simply the run out groove of time, a means to try and capture the experience.

this trio is defined by live performance. the relationship between the three, fused into an innate musical understanding through constant exposure to one another in the fiery amphitheatre of improvisation, driven by their individuality, bursts into fissive conflagration in live performance. resourcefully, remorselessly, inventive; muscular and graceful as the needs be – as the moment requires – they are live, alive, life. you can’t experience this trio in all their live magnificence on this wonderful recording, made at the café oto in london’s dalston last july. (you could, if you manage to catch a gig of theirs – and this we’d thoroughly recommend; but not everyone can and not everyone will and this is still a vast world ).

what you do have is a document, authentification if you like, of the obliquity trio live. this is what it’s like; all you have to do is close your eyes, spin the volume dial clockwise, conjure up café oto in your mind’s eye and revisit the ecstasy of the live experience.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 27 cd

peter brotzmann / alan wilkinson “one night at burmantofts” compact disc

  • greeting herr b and herr k (11:07)
  • cormorant number two (26:43)
  • bird flew (23:59)
  • all back to paul's (7:28)
excoriating quartet date led by the invigorated german free-sax titan peter brötzmann & longstanding u.k. skronk-purveyor alan wilkinson ... covers a bunch of free-breath zones; frankly, the group sound marvellous ...
bo’weavil press release...

one night in burmantofts
peter brotzmann & alan wilkinson quartet

peter brotzmann - clarinet, tarogato, tenor sax
alan wilkinson - alto sax, baritone sax, voice
simon h fell - double bass
willi kellers - drums

a long overdue meeting of two of the titans of the saxophone. alan wilkinson (alto, baritone & voice) and peter brotzmann (clarinet, tarogato & tenor) together with willi kellers (drums) and simon h. fell (bass) blow up one hell of a storm. the individuals on this recording consciously commit, putting themselves 'out there', over the edge. the energy, the electricity, generated by saxophonists wilkinson and brötzmann, is a result of their fearless approach to the precipice and their willingness to stare, unblinking, into the abyss. and yet while this music, free jazz, improv, call it what you will, exists at the boundary of our cultural existence, it echoes the sounds first identified as jazz, back at the birth pangs of the modern age. it is the commitment to a collective sound devoid of ego with the fearless individual, that makes this music extraordinary, that provides the moments of almost spiritual communion.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 23 lp

alan wilkinson / john edwards / steve noble “obliquity” long playing record

  • obliquity
  • drag head
  • south of 4
  • cuttin' the p nut
  • kwakm'bababli stomp
bo’weavil press release...
obliquity
alan wilkinson, john edwards & steve noble

obliquity is a free jazz record, if you'll forgive the use of such a hoary, old fashioned phrase. its scorching, heads-down momentum, rhythm and drive places it in direct line of descent from the fierce originators of the genre: ayler, sanders, graves, frank wright. it also swings. at times it dances.

obliquity is a free jazz record through the prism of the improvisational movement in europe, though. this is no attempt at polite revivalism or looking back/up to the 1960s. wilkinson/edwards/noble are producing new, vital music of and for now. you need form to work at this level of spontaneity and certainty and any frequenter of the outer limits of the european music scene could vouch for the jazz porridge these three have put away.

john edwards is such a fixture around the london scene these days it's hard to remember who did bass duty before he turned up. here he pins down the trio with precision and energy - his tremendous internal rhythm on display to full effect throughout.

alan wilkinson is a ferocious improviser, probably best known for membership of the demon hession/wilkinson/fell trio. obliquity features full-spectrum wilkinson: flatouttakenoprisoners saxophonication, squeals, coughs, sustained improvisational experimentation and east london tribal chanting. fierce and wonderful.

steve noble is an upright drummer who reminds me of an old photo of baby dodds. articulate, with a surgeon's accuracy, his crisp percussion work has accompanied dancers, funksters, poets and tuba players. but he's not played better than here: great power, allied to grace, a subtle touch and solid time - the drumming drives the music on to real heights. obliquity: advancing obliquely; deviating from the straight; freedom from the humdrum constraints of time and place.

obliquity: advancing obliquely; deviating from the straight; freedom from the humdrum constraints of time and place.

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 23 cd

alan wilkinson / john edwards / steve noble “obliquity” compact disc

  • obliquity
  • drag head
  • south of 4
  • cuttin' the p nut
  • kwakm'bababli stomp
bo’weavil press release...
obliquity
alan wilkinson, john edwards & steve noble

obliquity is a free jazz record, if you'll forgive the use of such a hoary, old fashioned phrase. its scorching, heads-down momentum, rhythm and drive places it in direct line of descent from the fierce originators of the genre: ayler, sanders, graves, frank wright. it also swings. at times it dances.

obliquity is a free jazz record through the prism of the improvisational movement in europe, though. this is no attempt at polite revivalism or looking back/up to the 1960s. wilkinson/edwards/noble are producing new, vital music of and for now. you need form to work at this level of spontaneity and certainty and any frequenter of the outer limits of the european music scene could vouch for the jazz porridge these three have put away.

john edwards is such a fixture around the london scene these days it's hard to remember who did bass duty before he turned up. here he pins down the trio with precision and energy - his tremendous internal rhythm on display to full effect throughout.

alan wilkinson is a ferocious improviser, probably best known for membership of the demon hession/wilkinson/fell trio. obliquity features full-spectrum wilkinson: flatouttakenoprisoners saxophonication, squeals, coughs, sustained improvisational experimentation and east london tribal chanting. fierce and wonderful.

steve noble is an upright drummer who reminds me of an old photo of baby dodds. articulate, with a surgeon's accuracy, his crisp percussion work has accompanied dancers, funksters, poets and tuba players. but he's not played better than here: great power, allied to grace, a subtle touch and solid time - the drumming drives the music on to real heights. obliquity: advancing obliquely; deviating from the straight; freedom from the humdrum constraints of time and place.

obliquity: advancing obliquely; deviating from the straight; freedom from the humdrum constraints of time and place.

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ecstatic peace! (usa) #e# 077 cd

paul hession / alan wilkinson / simon h. fell “st. johns” compact disc

  • inn (5:50)
  • quidi vidi (12:38)
  • logy bay (19:52)
  • m.u.n. (9:50)
  • signal hill (12:15)
ecstatic peace! press release...
hession/wilkinson/fell
st. johns cd
cat: cd#77

"paul hession (drums), simon fell (bass) and alan wilkinson (reeds) have been playing and recording some of britain's most challenging and intriguing improvised new music for the last 20 years on. a continuing run of releases on their own bruce's fingers label has been one of the great basement joys for free music cognoscenti. this cd is not so much the raw and angular thought-drive that these men seem to be regarded for (though those merits are certainly contained here) but a sublime and complex traveller's digest into sophisticated and radical form and flow. this is beautiful music for lovers and fighters both." -- t.moore

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