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Splatter + Improgressive at EFG London Jazz Festival at Iklectik
Courtesy of Noel Taylor | Posted on October 6, 2016
Where
Iklectik
EFG London Jazz Festival
20 Carlisle Lane
London
Map
07809727199
When
Sat, November 19, 2016
20:00
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Musicians
Noel Taylor
clarinetAnna Kaluza
saxophone, altoTom Greenhalgh
drumsPedro Velasco
guitarAlberto Popolla
clarinetAbout
Adam Baruch, author of over 5,000 cd reviews, remarked: 'Surely this music was at least rehearsed to some extent before the recording....Quite honestly this is definitely one of the most beautiful improvised music efforts I have been exposed to in the last few years'. He was talking about 'Splatter', a Berlin-London collaboration. This is a band that invariably executes the same illusive magic trick of persuading audiences, from Berlin's B Flat to London's Café Oto, that their improvisations are composed or pre-structured. Each of the musicians bring something to the mix: Anna Kaluza, from Berlin, supplies spikey, irregular jazz-improv lines that dart frantically around Taylor's hard-wired sense of structure & melody, while Greenhalgh & Peters provide a rhythm section that instantly locks onto each change and nuance. It is music that thrives on rapid, unpredictable shifts of style, a storm of musical ideas delivered with quick-fire velocity and panache...