Outer limits free improvisation, ecstatic free rock moves and psychedelic excess from this triple header of sympatico sound units.

NINNI MORGIA & SILVIA KASTEL

Ninni Morgia while living in NYC from 2003-2009 has played, recorded and toured with William Parker, Daniel Carter, Peter Evans and many more. The Wire Magazine said about him: "Morgia's guitar work, even at its most abstract and non-guitarish, has real beauty. You won't hear anything else like this anytime soon". He now lives in Italy.

Silvia Kastel runs the Ultramarine record label in Italy since 2009, owns a degree in sound engineering and electronic music and studied singing with Joan La Barbara and Lee Torchia. Her first solo release "Love Tape" is "hauntingly sexy and eerily disembodied... an art object of the kind that used only to be the realm of such record labels as Factory, Rough Trade and New York's ROIR" according to Julian Cope.

Their new LP as a duo under the name CONTROL UNIT, "The Fugitives", is out now on the Backwards label.

TEMPERATURES

"Temperatures are a London based duo of bassist/vocalist Peter Blundell and drummer James Dunn, who strip the form back to the bone, relying on the natural properties of their instruments, a handful of pedals and a synth wired up to the drums to create unruly, improvised Noise rock.

The obvious comparison would be Lightning Bolt, but Temperatures have a less bludgeoning, more light-footed approach, with Dunn's drumming owing more to free jazz than hardcore, even hints of Prog. But there's an infectious sense of irreverence and adventure that stops them getting bogged down anywhere too long." Daniel Spicer, The WIRE

James Dunn - drums/synth
Peter Blundell - bass/vocals

"bear witness to a stage-managed collapse into utter formlessness and incoherent, spastic riffing that's simply phenomenal." Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector



BOLIDE

Bolide is an electro-acoustic improvising sextet, formed in Brighton, UK, in 2007. Originally coming together for a one-off performance at the Colour Out of Space festival that year, the group has so far failed to disband.

“As a launching pad to tomorrow, free jazz remains one of the most potent, if hermetic, of conceptual formulas due to its foregrounding of the spontaneous, its focus on exploration as opposed to mere tourism. In recent years players from the more traditionally omnivorous disciplines of drone, psychedelia and noise music have combined to broker a rapprochement with the form, mostly focussed on its harnessing of energy as a structural solvent – groups like Michigan’s Graveyards, New York’s Owl Xounds, Brighton’s Bolide.” David Keenan, The Wire, November 2008.

“Gonzo free music and guerrilla jazz from this drug and ale gorged Brighton sextet. A lot of reeds, tapes, percussion, vocal hollerin’ and the likes all captured in mysterious crud-fidelity. Come and enjoy this unseasoned brew.” Dylan Nyoukis of Chocolate Monk on ‘The Authority of Omar.’

“The usual shorthand on Bolide is that they’re a free-jam free-jazz mind-loosened collective, but their reach often goes way beyond this.  Much like laying a pile of Smegma vinyl and that gorgeous Ayler boxset on top of each other in the summer sun and then playing it, Bolide do the refined jam thing.  Across this handful of jams, that all come under the “Winter Triptych” banner, Bolide dip into violin droning, saloon piano and fire(-damaged) music, but they still sound like there is a sense of direction.  It’s not exactly anything goes, but it’s not far off.” Scott McKeating, Foxy Digitalis, on ‘Winter Triptych’

“In terms of seaside town analogies, if the A band are Sidmouth, Bolide are St Tropez. There’s an unlikely yet appealing aura of Beefheartian rigour mixed with electric-era Miles Davis’ cigarette butts. Sure enough its free, but its not empty flailing. They’re much more sophisticated, and presumably like to lean more towards louche jazz histories than freedom for freedom’s sake. I was also charmed by the variety of wind instruments used which leant the proceedings a vaguely North African flavour one moment and an Asian or Indonesian one the next. Plus there was nonsensical shouting off mic which was great. Exuberant. That’s a key word here.” www.slightlyoffkilterlabel.blogspot.com

“Bolide are either an acquired taste or a psilocybin victims’ self-help group with a penchant for Free Jazz and novelty ethnic instruments … or possibly both. They deliver … flow-of-consciousness musical blather that sounds like six drunk tramps wrestling in the instrument storage room of a folk all-dayer.” www.rock-metal-music-reviews.com