LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA - Improvisations For George Riste

Improvisations For George Riste

LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA Improvisations For George Riste

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Roland Ramanan trumpet, wooden flute

Ian Smith, Harry Beckett trumpets

Guillermo Torres flugelhorn

Robert Jarvis trombone

Neil Metcalfe flute

Catherine Pluygers oboe

John Rangecroft clarinet

Harrison Smith, Jacques Foschia bass clarinets

Lol Coxhill, Evan Parker, Chefa Alonso soprano saxophones

Adrian Northover soprano & alto saxophones

Caroline Kraabel, Simon Rose alto saxophones

John Butcher tenor saxophone

Philipp Wachsmann, Sylvia Hallett, Susanna Ferrar violins

Ivor Kallin violin, viola

Charlotte Hug viola

Marcio Mattos, Barbara Meyer 'celli

David Leahy, Simon H. Fell double basses

Dave Tucker, John Bisset electric guitar

B.J. Cole pedal steel guitar

Steve Beresford piano

Amy Denio accordion & voice

Annie Lewandowski accordion, musical saw

Jackie Walduck vibraphone

Tony Marsh, Mark Sanders, Javier Carmona percussion

Orphy Robinson percussion, electronics

Knut Aufermann, Pat Thomas electronics

Filomena Campus voice

Adam Bohman amplified objects

2003, 2007 (74 mins.) in jewel case

Four free improvisations drawn from the LIO's (formerly) monthly concerts at the Red Rose, collated, presented and contextualised by Evan Parker's psi label

psi 08.06 (CD)

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quotes:

"These recordings persuasively show the subtleties of coloration, shape and intensity that can arise in such free playing.... if the scope of LIO music is circumscribed by collective priorities, its sweep remains impressive in its evident self-regulated coherence and shared purpose." Julian Cowley SIGNAL TO NOISE

"A complex architecture of indefiniteness finds its ultimate realization in the continuous shift from edginess to stillness - and vice versa - that typifies various sections of the pieces, usually taking shape from sparse suggestions and probing hints. The instrumentalists channel their intuition towards the margins of different latent tonalities, instantly pulverized by the inside power of the acoustic creation. The weighty humanity of this music is often in nearly painful evidence, aesthetically improbable mechanics miraculously connected and working yet still frail, almost in danger of being scattered around by the ever-strong winds of an uncongenial conformism. But LIO seems to be willing to resist to that threat." Massimo Ricci TOUCHING EXTREMES

« La cohérence et l'écoute mutuelle au sein de l'ensemble sont saisissantes. C'est le fruit d'un travail de longue haleine et l'expression du fort sentiment communautaire pour ne pas dire fraternel qui unit les improvisateurs londoniens toutes générations et tendances confondues. L'improvisation collective libre serait aussi une forme de composition réalisée en direct et dirigée par chacun des membres de l'orchestre. C'est ce que démontre ce fantastique album du London Improvisers Orchestra. Improvisations For George Riste est leur septième enregistrement et comporte les moment parmi les plus épurés et les plus nuancés de leur catalogue. Bien que les enregistrements de ces improvisations aient étés réalisés avec une installation de campagne, ils sont excellents et bien balancés. On imagine aisément le son de l'orchestre et son ampleur en concert : une des sept merveilles de la planète improvisation. » Jean-Michel van Schouwburg IMPROJAZZ

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