Uncategorisable guitar/percussion duo of former Pee-Ess-Eye drummer Fritz Welch and guitarist
Neil Davidson paired up for two duos and a one-off quartet with the reconvened Lexer/Noble Piano/Percussion combo following their stunning first encounter for Muddy Ditch #2.
WITH LUMPS
With Lumps (Fritz Welch - percussion / Neil Davidson - guitar): Fetid sonic sci-fi with an urbane twist; With Lumps ask that we imagine the gralloching of a thousand robots, springs and home grown skin all a quiver. Neil is from The Borders and Fritz is from Texas. They are based in Glasgow.
Sebastian Lexer rewires the ultimate nineteenth-century drawing room mechanism with twenty-first-century technology to create a music that hovers inbetween times, exploiting the tension between the automatic and the intentional, making any firm sense of space thrillingly uncertain.
Steve Noble is often typecast these days as a loud and aggressive free jazz drummer but, while undoubtedly a master at cranking up volume and energy, he relishes awkward and unlikely situations and handles them with poise and elegance, as recent duos with Ryu Hankil and Paul Abbott have made perfectly clear.
