For Immediate Release Please
RARE NOISE
TO RELEASE TWO NEW RECORDINGS
IN MARCH
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Bassists
Lorenzo Feliciati & Colin Edwin
Join Forces on
Twinscapes
Powerful Debut Release Scheduled for March on RareNoise
AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE MARCH 3, 2014
AND THROUGH RARE NOISE RECORDS
ON CD, VINYL AND HI-RES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
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Lorenzo Feliciati
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fretted and fretless bass, fx
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Colin Edwin
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fretted and fretless bass, fx
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and
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Nils Petter Molvaer
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trumpet
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David Jackson
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saxophone
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Andi Pupato
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various percussion and metallics
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Roberto Gualdi
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drums
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ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords
was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist /arranger/ producer
Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located in
London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and
listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre. For
further information and to listen please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com or https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/jukebox/twinscapes/twinscapes/
New York, February 3, 2014 - Two bassists from two different continents -- Italian Lorenzo Feliciati of the adventurous jazz-rock band Naked Truth and the intensely searching nu jazz group Berserk! and Australian Colin Edwin
of the longstanding prog-rock band Porcupine Tree and the heavy-duty,
experimental Metallic Taste of Blood as well as Ex-Wise Heads and Burnt
Belief -- come together to make one potent statement on Twinscapes. With special guest appearances by acclaimed trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, saxophonist David Jackson (of Van der Graaf Generator), Swiss percussionist Andi Pupato (of Andreas Vollenweider and Nik Bartschʼs Ronin) and drummer Roberto Gualdi (of the Italian prog-rock band PFM), this bass-dominant project, which was mixed by renowned bassist-producer Bill Laswell,
travels from ambient soundscapes to slamming funk workouts and kinetic
grooves to cinematic-sounding pieces that defy easy categorization. And
there are plenty of virtuosic fireworks along the way by all the
principal soloists on this outstanding RareNoise release which is
released on March 3rd on CD /vinyl and Hi- Res digital download.
Feliciati
and Edwin first got together for an impromptu one-off gig in London
early in 2013, and they discovered an instant chemistry on the
bandstand. As Colin recalls, "I was familiar with Lorenzoʼs band Naked
Truth and also his solo album Frequent Flyer,
and coincidentally had been toying with the idea of a dual-bass project
with a bass player friend of mine. So I immediately thought it was
something worth doing as an experiment, at least. And I knew that this
project would lead us to explore other things you tend to do a lot less
of in a regular band set-up, like using different effects, E-bows, have
the bass playing melodies and so forth."
In preparing for their
session together, Feliciati and Edwin spent a few productive days in a
studio in the English countryside, fleshing out compositions from the
bones of each otherʼs sketches. Playing both fretted and fretless
basses, the two kindred low-end spirits create a formidable undercurrent
on the 11 powerful tracks from Twinscape while embellishing the open-ended pieces with freewheeling improvisation. "We had a very short
time to plan what to do and only a small amount of rehearsal," says
Edwin, "but even from our brief rehearsal, it certainly felt like we had
a natural way of playing together. Without any real discussion we
managed to find a way of fitting around each other, despite occupying
the same frequency area. It requires a certain amount of intuition and
sensitivity just to be able to do that, without stepping on each others toes and filling up the same space."
That kind of complementary attitude permeates Twinscapes,
though each of the bassists do step out with stunning solos from track
to track. They kick off the proceedings with "Shaken," which begins with
a calming, ambient drone before developing a thickly textured
undercurrent from multiple overdubs laid down by the two bassists. As
drummer Gualdi fuels the track with powerhouse backbeats, Edwin plays
the fretless solo, the harmonic delays and the picked bass parts while
they combine on the tight unison riffs. Feliciati adds false harmonics
and octave bass lines on this dynamic opener. On the more lyrical
"Alice," a piece written by Feliciati for his daughter and which
appeared on his first-ever solo release in 2003, he plays the main bass
part and the chordal part while Edwin covers the melody, the harmonic
slides and the beautiful fretless bass work. Lorenzo provides the
ambient wash with his bass pedals on "In Dreamland" and Colin
contributes to that ethereal vibe by using the E-bow in conjunction with his bass.
With
Andi Pupato, Nils Petter Molvaer, David Jackson and Roberto Gualdi,
Feliciati and Edwin have gathered a group of world-class musicians who
bring this release to new creative heights.
TRACKS
Shaken
Alice
In Dreamland
Breathsketch
Transparent
i-DEA
Conspiracy
Perfect Tool
Sparse
Yügen
Solos
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FREE NELSON MANDOOMJAZZ
Debuts on RareNoise
with Double EP
The Shape of Doomjazz to Come /
Saxophone Giganticus
AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE MARCH 3, 2014
AND THROUGH RARE NOISE RECORDS
ON CD, VINYL AND HI-RES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
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Rebecca Sneddon
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alto sax
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Colin Stewart
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bass
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Archibald
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drums
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ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/ producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located
in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and
listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre. For
further information and to listen please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com or https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/jukebox/fnmdj/2ep/
New York, February 3, 2014
- With a crunching sound that is as teeth-chatteringly heavy as metal
icons like Slayer and Megadeth or ferocious grindcore groups like Napalm
Death and Brutal Truth, yet is imbued with the freedom principle of
such avant garde jazz icons as saxophonists Marshall Allen, Albert Ayler
and Peter Brötzman, the formidable instrumental power trio from
Scotland known as Free Nelson Mandoom Jazz debuts on the London-based
RareNoise label with a provocative double EP that will confound jazz
critics as it challenges the thrashmetal-grindcore community. Jointly
named for the late South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela and the
genre of fuzz-bass-inflected heavy-duty improvisation dubbed 'doomjazz',
this renegade trio of bassist Colin Stewart, drummer Archibald and alto saxophonist Rebecca Sneddon rattles the very grey matter of your brain on their imposing Shape of Doomjazz to Come/Saxophone Giganticus.
With
a throbbing, slow-grooving undercurrent created by bassist Stewart and
drummer Archibald, freewheeling saxophonist Sneddon wails with impunity
in the altissimo register of her horn on doomjazz anthems like "Where My
Soul Can Be Free," "The Mask of the Red Death" and "Black Sabbath."
Their atmospheric "Nobody Fucking Posts to the UAE" takes a more
deliberately melodic approach with Stewart's unaffected basslines
doubling with Sneddon's alto sax on the head before she embarks on a
searching solo. Midway through this more introspective piece, Stewart
kicks on his fuzzbox and Archibald slams more emphatically as Sneddon
builds to some cathartic blowing on her horn. "K54", inspired by
Domenico Scarlatti's K54 sonata, introduces a swing element into the
proceedings with Stewart's up-tempo walking basslines and Archibald's
insistent ride cymbal work. The trio navigates through some intricate
stop-time passages before Stewart once again stomps on his distortion
pedal, a cue for Sneddon to head for the stratosphere with her emphatic
overblowing on the alto sax. "Saxophone Giganticus" (the title a playful
mutation of Sonny Rollin's "Saxophone Colossus") finds the trio in a
more relaxed mode with Stewart's clean bass lines and didgeridoo
combining to create a darkly insinuating undercurrent for Sneddon's
sinewy sax lines. A little less than midway through, this kinder,
gentler approach evaporates in the face of another formidable doomjazz
excursion. And the closing track, "Black Sabbath," carries all the
heavyweight underpinnings that name would imply while including some of
Sneddon's most ferocious, take-no-prisoners approach to overblowing on
the recording. These brand new recordings were mixed by renowned Italian
sound sculptor Eraldo Bernocchi. A brand new album is currently being
worked on and will be released later this year.
TRACKS
Where My Soul Can Be Free
Into The Sky
The Mask Of The Red Death
No One Fucking Posts To The UAE
K56
Saxophone Giganticus
Black Sabbath
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