REVIEW: FREEDOM OF THE CITY 2001 - LARGE GROUPS

 

FREEDOM OF THE CITY 2001 - LARGE GROUPS (Emanem Disc, 2002)

Produced by Martin Davidson

Recorded at the Freedom of the City Festival

Tracks: CD 1: 1- Trick on the Speed of Making It, 2- Daylight Receptacle

CD 2: 1- Flower of Flesh and Blood, 2- Morton´s Mobile; 3- Group Dynamics Around the Slide; 4- Concerto for Sylvia Hallett; 5- Double Rainbow; 6- Birthday Piece; 7- An If But To and When; 8- Proceeding 5

This is a 2-CD set in which the first one consists on two tracks (the first one is over 31 minutes) from a String improviser ensemble with great musicians like Phil Durrant, Chris Burn, Sylvia Hallett and John Russell to name just a few (the great Evan Parker appears in the second track and the second one is a big orchestra called the London Improvisers Orchestra. The London Improvisers Orchestra has many other instruments apart from the strings and here you can listen the talent of Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford and many others. This recording was made in the Freedom of the City Festival 2001 and showcases the improvising and spontaneous skills of this group of talented musicians. The music contained here is highly experimental and spontaneous. It is great to see the communication between the musicians that is evident through all this recording. A great album from this extremely open minded musicians.

Favorite tracks: "Trick on the speed of making it"; "Concerto for Sylvia Hallett" and "Proceeding " .

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