Monday, January 31, 2022

John Edwards | Steve Noble | Yoni Silver - HEME (January 2022 Shrike Records)

At an empty Café Oto during COVID Lockdown in April 2021, three of London’s foremost improvisers recorded seven tracks which reflect their inventive approach to free improvisation. Building on Steve Nobel and Yoni Silver’s previous work together as a duo on HOME, they were joined by the inexhaustible talents of double bass player John Edwards. Steve and John are no strangers to each other and, with Yoni’s talents for invention with the bass clarinet, the trio have pieced together a freshly textural and teasingly explorational set of tracks. Noble's powerful and shape-shifting percussion underpinning and interlocking with Edwards’s bass, pushing the sound into fresh territories.; Silver’s masterful and ever innovative clarinet weaving and breaking new ground for the trio to explore.

1. A 13:03
2. Tunica Intima 07:45
3. B 05:26
4. Tunica Media 09:50
5. C 11:26
6. Tunica Externa 11:25
7. O 07:07

John Edwards - Double bass
Steve Noble - Drums/cymbals and percussion’
Yoni Silver - Bass clarinet

Recorded by Shaun Crook at Cafe Oto on 24/4/21
Mixed by Yoni Silver
Mastered by Jeff Ardron of Saint Austral Sound