The first in an irregular series of unprecedented improvisations featuring an extended encounter between three musicians who've never played together before and have no shared fallback position. Improvisation at its most risky, dramatic and fascinating . . .

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LEE GAMBLE

“[Gamble’s] emphasis is on choppy, granular frequency storms, subjected to ongoing and sudden change, the rhythm of the sound incidents from time to time threatening to cohere into discernible patterns.” - Nick Cain, The Wire



Cyrk website

ROGER TURNER

“Turner [used] brushes to create a wild spattering and scattering of sound from cymbal and snare, with sudden explosions from tom and kick drums. At times in this early passage he sounded like rain on a caravan roof, at others like a tool box in the back of a moving van” - Molloy Woodcraft, The Guardian



Roger Turner website

Roger Turner photo above (w/ Steve Beresford & Alan Tomlinson) by Andrew Bowman

SEYMOUR WRIGHT

“Saxophonist Seymour Wright has emerged as the most important saxophonist of his generation. . . [He] shows a command of the saxophone which in contrast to most ‘non-idiomatic’ playing – cynically translated as ‘make your saxophone sound like anything other than a saxophone’ – has deep roots in a tradition of playing that goes back to Frankie Trumbauer, Coleman Hawkins and Willie Smith.” - Brian Morton



Seymour Wright website