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Release Date: 25 July 2025
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078019925
Genres: Electronic Jazz
Description
Complex improvised electronic textures bounce around the sound stage in this spontaneous performance from free jazz trio Lifeline (Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash and Tony Orrell), which draws on various musics: noise, dance, rock.
"What makes a band a band? The most obvious answer is surely "its members". If that were the whole story then the music on this album would be by Bleyschool - the name that Pat Thomas, Tony Orrell, and Dominic Lash usually appear under when performing as a classic piano trio (piano, drums, double bass), with two albums to date.
As Lifeline, the same three musicians are as determinedly electric as Bleyschool is resolutely acoustic: keyboards/electronics, electroacoustic percussion and electronics, electric guitar. The musicians have many years' familiarity with one another, but here they eschew the stability of a familiar instrumentation.
Pat Thomas: keyboard, electronics
Dominic Lash: electric guitar
Tony Orrell: electric drums, cymbals
Tracklisting
Army Of Briars
Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall
Theo May's Odd Unit
Charlotte Keeffe
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
Lifeline
Pieces Of A Dream
Lifeline
Shifa
Theo Travis
Rosa Passos
Peter Vuust Quartet
Jens Duppe
Amir Bresler & Nitai Hershkovits
