The case for the common image of free improvisers as a bunch of Po-faced, polemically puffed up theory-pushers gets the eye-bite from this keen re-issue. Saxophonist Watts, newly liberated from John Stevens' close watch, threw off the shackles of non-idiomatic dogma in the mid 70s to revel in an astonishing series of flesh-quaking polyrhythms which presage much of his later Afro-influenced work, most notably with the Moire Music ensemble.
Unlike the unhappy tyrannies which tormented Watts' SME tenure, here he'd fired up a collective for cow-handed carnival, cheering merry with a suite of flexible compositions, rowdy and partially unhinged, delivering a distinctly British take on the big band blowouts of both Ra and Kuti. The rawness of these recordings - three live cuts from a 1976 performance at London's Notre Dame Theatre have been appended to the original tracks - do nothing to diminish the joyful zeal of their fratchy attack, the tinny tones disseminating the boundless enthusiasm like a nipper with a super-soaker primed with punch.
Hi4Head Records was formed in 2002 by Sue and Nick Dart to issue music of an enduring quality across a number of genres.
Sunday, 27 March 2016
Friday, 30 January 2015
Friday, 15 August 2014
False-Heads in NME!
'Anything Else' is a jangly masterpiece (NME) - We agree! Listen to and buy the Tunnel Vision EP False-Heads at www.hi4headrecords.com
Monday, 7 July 2014
Saturday, 5 July 2014
False-Heads premiering Fall Around from the Tunnel Vision EP on Artrocker.TV
Fall Around from the forthcoming EP Tunnel Vision is premiering NOW on ArtRocker TV for Essex band False-Heads. Great news for a superb band! Go! http://www.artrocker.tv/news/article/premiere-false-heads-fall-around
Saturday, 28 June 2014
False-Heads ep Tunnel Vision
Here's the link to Fall Around, the lead track on the forthcoming EP Tunnel Vision by False-Heads http://false-heads.bandcamp.com/track/fall-around
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)