Details are sketchy so far but it’s looking like Confront Recordings are to release a new live album by cult avant piano trio Bourne-Davis-Kane this summer.
Confront’s Mark Wastell told marlbank: “Through FB [Facebook] I’ve become aware of so many wonderful musicians. Dave Kane was one of them and one of his postings was that very Vimeo of the trio, of which I watched and liked so much and in the heat of the moment made the offer to release the music on disc.” That ‘very Vimeo’ is above, click and you can listen to what Wastell was, understandably, impressed by, a remarkable recording however murkily lit of the trio performing at the peak of their powers at the Beyond Disciplines, Beyond Borders concert.
Recorded last year in Belfast’s Sonic Arts Research Centre during the Translating Improvisation: Beyond Disciplines Beyond Borders colloquium it’s some six years since the trio released The Money Notes. That was two years on from Lost Something, an album that spawned the trio’s formidable reputation among free-improv fans, inspiring John Fordham in The Guardian in something of a rave review to compare the trio “to some of the famous odysseys of Cecil Taylor’s groups.” The new album arrives a little over a year on from the trio’s first performances of Piers Hellawell’s ‘Sound Carvings, Strange Tryst’ which premiered at the Brilliant Corners festival a few months before this recording was made and which then toured to Aberdeen, Glasgow and London.
Stephen Graham