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AMHERST DISLODGED | Tim Crowther guitar, guitar synth. Steve Franklin keyboards, Tony Marsh drums. | ||||
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WIRE magazine top CD 2005. Tim Crowther, Steve Franklin and Tony Marsh have been playing in trio since 1998, brought together by a shared passion for hard electric jazz-rock and free improvisation. Their intention is to create new electric improvised music that excites and engages the listener and that comes from somewhere other than the obviously recognizable and comforting. |
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�Amherst Dislodged� (SLAMCD 263). Bar-code 50 28386 02632 7 Tim Crowther guitar, guitar synth. Steve Franklin keyboards, Tony Marsh drums. 1 Yearn 2:52 Recorded at Amherst Lodge, Roehampton, London, engineered by Tim Crowther. Recording and mixing completed in January 2005" Tim Crowther (guitar/guitar synth), Steve Franklin (keyboards) and Tony Marsh (drums) have been playing together since 1998, brought together by a shared passion for hard electric jazz-rock and free improvisation. Their intention is to create new electric improvised music that excites and engages the listener and that comes from somewhere other than the obviously recognizable and comforting. The music is not intended to convey meaning but simply to express aliveness and possibility. It comes not from pre-planning or the concepts of any individual band member, but rather from a collective free-fall, with abandon. Amherst Dislodged is their second CD and demonstrates a sure development of the music. Tim Crowther has recorded with ex-King Crimson violinist David Cross on two CDs of improvised music with Geoff Serle's band, Radius. Together with drummer Steve Clarke he formed the jazz-rock group Network and with him co-wrote the CD Corroded Path, released in the USA and Canada. His improvising group Conglomerate included trumpeter Ted Emmett and keyboard player Steve Franklin and released two CDs, the second of which featured Hugh Hopper on bass. He also gigged with another Soft Machine player, saxophonist Lynn Dobson, in an improvising trio with Dreamtime drummer Jim Lebaigue. With the improvising band Organon - Elton Dean, Jim Dvorak, John Edwards and Jim Lebaigue - he recorded Klusterbuckstuckle, released on the SLAM label in 2004.. RADIUS - Sightseeing - Ear-Rational 1989 - ECD 1017 CONGLOMERATE - The Bible Says - Impetus 1990 - IMP CD 18921 RADIUS - Elevation - Ear-Rational 1992 - ECD 1036 NETWORK - Corroded Path - Progressive International 1993 - PRO 018 CONGLOMERATE - Precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true - Dissenter/Progressive International 1995 - PRO 034 GROON - Refusal to Comply - Dissenter/Progressive International 1994 - PRO 050 MARSH / FRANKLIN / CROWTHER - Shell of Certainty - Visionlogic 1998 ORGANON - Klusterbuckstuckle - SLAM 2004 - SLAMCD 256 - 2004 Steve Franklin has toured and recorded with many bands including guitarist Phil Miller's In Cahoots with Elton Dean (sax) and Pip Pyle (drums); a quartet led by the ex-Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge; the Brit-Magyar Quintet; the Simon Picard Quartet and an improvising quartet with George Haslam (sax), Paul Rutherford (trombone) and Marcio Mattos (bass). His debut recording was of his own compositions with his first band, Steps, and he has subsequently led several bands including Momentum and the Steve Franklin Group, featuring such musicians as Mick Hutton (bass), John Paracelli (guitar) and Ray Warleigh (sax). STEPS - Steps - EMI Pathe-Marconi 1978 MACONDO - Leverkusen Jazz Festival Anthology - 1985 IN CAHOOTS - Split Seconds - Reckless 1988 IN CAHOOTS - Live in Europe - Mantra 1990 HASLAM - Level Two - Slam 1988 CONGLOMERATE - The Bible Says - Impetus 1990 - IMP CD 18921 CONGLOMERATE - Precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true - Progressive International 1995 - PRO 034 THE JOHN ETHERIDGE QUARTET - Ash - The Jazz Label 1993 - TJL103CD Tony Marsh first came to prominence in the 70s with jazz-rock group Major Surgery - developing its compositions from group improvisations, it became a major innovator in this area of jazz. He has toured with Mike Osborne, John Surman, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Barry Guy, Howard Riley, Elton Dean, Yves Robert and Didier Levallet. A trio with Simon Picard and Paul Rogers grew into the Mingus inspired band 7RPM. Tony joined the Mike Westbrook Brass Band in 1982, recording On Duke's Birthday and combining with Le Sinfonietta de Picardie in 1988 to record London Bridge is Broken Down. A long association with Harry Beckett has produced several records and a trio CD with Didier Levallet. He also plays in the improvising quartet Full Monte, with Chris Biscoe, Brian Godding and Marcio Mattos, with whom he has toured extensively and recorded. He has recently been gigging and recording with bassist Nick Stephens and saxophonist Frode Gerstadt. MAJOR SURGERY - The First Cut - Next Records DIDIER LEVALLET - Quiet Days - Evidence MIKE WESTBROOK - On Duke�s Birthday - Hat Art RILEY-CASTRONARI-MARSH - Feathers - Spotlite MIKE WESTBROOK - London Bridge is Broken Down - Virgin Venture HARRY BECKETT - Four for One - Spotlite HASLAM - Level Two - Slam 1988 FULL MONTE - Life in the Grand Hotel - Walking Wig BECKETT-LEVALLET-MARSH - Images of Clarity - Evidence PICARD-ROGERS-MARSH - News from the North - Intakt 1993 - Intakt CD 028 FULL MONTE - Spark in the Dark - Slam 1994 - Slam CD 209
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