Tuesday 5 January 2027, 7.30pm
Ray Russell / electric guitar
Nathan Moore (NO Moore) / electric guitar
Eddie Prévost / drums
Excited to host the barnstorming trio of Eddie Prévost, Ray Russell and Nathan Moore following the release of 2026's excellent Stacked album on Cuneiform Records.
"There are improvisation records that sound like conversations, others that resemble arguments, and a few that feel like three people discovering a previously unknown species while trying not to scare it away. "Stacked" belongs somewhere in that last category.
On paper, the combination is already intriguing. Nathan Moore, a guitarist whose work draws equally from free improvisation, jazz, rock, electronics, and contemporary composition, joins two towering figures of British exploratory music: drummer Eddie Prévost and guitarist Ray Russell. Between them lies a remarkable amount of musical history. Prévost helped establish free improvisation as a radical practice through the legendary ensemble AMM, while Russell spent decades moving between jazz, rock, film scores, television soundtracks, and avant-garde experimentation, accumulating enough stylistic passports to fill several lifetimes. Moore enters this meeting not as a disciple but as an equal participant, bringing a contemporary sensibility sharpened through years within London's fertile improvising scene....
In a world increasingly governed by algorithms eager to predict our next move, there is something quietly radical about listening to artists who genuinely do not know what will happen next. "Stacked" captures that uncertainty not as a problem to be solved, but as a source of possibility. The music breathes because nobody is trying to control it. And, as it turns out, that remains one of the oldest and most reliable forms of magic." – chaindlk.com
A founder-member of AMM (1965-2022)
“[Eddie Prévost’s] is one of the greatest metallurgists that music has produced. […] sparks delicately arcing through the air, of slow lava ingesting its surroundings, of the shifting grind of tectonic plates across each other, of the rustle and glint of a firebird darting between shadows, and of ore smashing into the surface of the earth; but perhaps this language is overwrought: all that needs to be remarked upon is Prévost's industry, his diligence.”
Nathan Moore — liner note to AMM’s ‘Indúsria’
Matchless Recordings mrcd105.
But beyond this work Prévost has also maintained a relationship with the jazz drum-kit.
“His free drumming flows superbly making perfect use of his formidable technique, but his most startling feature is his stylelessness. It’s as though there has never been an Elvin Jones or a Max Roach.” - review of a set with saxophonist Lou Gare, Melody Maker (27.03.1975)
“Prévost, meanwhile, was simply miraculous; it was fascinating to watch him and to compare his approach with that of a Kern or a Nilssen-Love. I can only say that he was possessed of an uncanny, burning intentness that navigated the ensemble through passages of stark, sculpted beauty, grave concentration and full-on, bristling energy.”
Blue Tomato, Vienna 2012. In concert with Marilyn Crispell and Harrison Smith. Richard Rees-Jones
“An excellent release from one of the finest percussionists around, jazz or otherwise.” review of Prévost’s solo CD ‘Collider’
Matchless Recordings mrcd106 – Brian Olewnic, Squidsear (2022).
“Relentlessly innovative yet full of swing and fire.” – Morning Star
N.O. Moore is an electric guitarist with a parallel interest in electronics and drum machines. As an improviser, he has played with people such as Eddie Prévost, John Butcher, Rachel Musson, John Edwards, Sue Lynch, Alan Wilkinson, Steve Noble, and Steve Beresford. He can now be heard on a number of recordings, including Nous (with Prévost and Jason Yarde) on Matchless, and The Secret Handshake with Danger (with Henry Kaiser, Binker Golding, Olie Brice, and Prévost) on 577. He has recently launched the DXDY Recordings label to present improvised and electronic musics: dxdyrecordings.com
Moore is interested in the relationship between automation and autonomy, and how this affords fabrications of human sensibility and affect. His first album of purely electronic music will be released by Orbit577 later in 2021.
‘Moore shifts fluidly from argumentatively fractured jazz licks to spacey atmospherics to mad cat hisses; the appositeness of his contributions belies the sparseness of his recorded discography’ The Wire (Bill Meyer)
‘Moore unpacks an impressive bag of tricks.’ Jazzwise (Daniel Spicer)
‘Guitarist N.O. Moore would likely attract some attention in any fit company, for he brings a highly personal conception to an instrument often sullied by redundancy.’ Freejazzblog (Stuart Broomer)
A professional musician for more than 6 decades, guitarist Ray Russell has worked as a performer, bandleader, composer and producer, touring and recording with countless musicians and composing and playing on movie, TV and theatre soundtracks; he won an ASCAP award for the most played music on American TV in one year. He has been a contractor, musician or musical director for artists such as Tina Turner, George Harrison, Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and more.
In recent years, Russell’s avant-garde leaning solo work from the early 1970s has been discovered by a new generation of admirers, led by the international noise-scene vanguard.
