Cat No:
DISCUS84CD
Release Date: 31 January 2020
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078970028
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
The Geordie Approach are two Norwegians and a Geordie. They met in Leeds and play improvised music. They have been doing it since the early 00s. The name? A stupid comment about the correct volume to operate amplifiers (loud enough to disrupt all surrounding activity and stimulate acts of desperate violence) that became a kind of mantra to how the band would approach its performances and recordings.
Both of the band's previous records (on Simon H. Fell's Bruce's Fingers label) featured edited improvisations, cut to 'song length' to emphasise the group's highly compositional approach to improvisation; opting for focused episodes of layered improvisation over the more stream-of-consciousness approach of some free improvisation.
In the lead up to The Geordie Approach's latest album 'Shields', the band toured extensively around Europe and Japan honing their episodic, 'everything-is-permitted' approach to improvisation. Following festival performances in the UK, the band set up in a re-purposed Methodist church in Leeds with a handful of microphones and played two 30-minute pieces. These two pieces, 'North' and 'South' comprise the album. What you hear is what they played. No edits. No fixes.
Personnel: Ståle Birkeland (drums), Petter Frost Fadnes (saxophone, electronics), Chris Sharkey (guitar, electronics).
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Tracklisting
- 1. North
- 2. South
Disc 1
Side 1
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Made From A Broken Star
Army Of Briars
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Aeolian
Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne
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Fanfares and Freedom
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall
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Alive in the Forest of Odd
Theo May's Odd Unit
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Right Here, Right Now
Charlotte Keeffe
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Dream Feathers
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
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Sound On Stone
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
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The Exu
The Exu
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El Roi
Sultan Stevenson
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Spirit Fall
John Patitucci
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Straight Eight
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
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On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)
Xhosa Cole
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Talk to me about Mulgrew
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
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I Hear Echoes
George Cables
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Rare Birds
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
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The Exu
The Exu
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