Richard Beswick, Simon Mayo, Philipp Wachsmann, Tony Wren – Chamberpot [LP] (1976, Bead Records)

 

This quartet is a proponent of a type of improvisational move between free-jazz influences and chamber instruments, formed in London by violinist Philipp Wachsmann (who had made his debut in the excellent, choral, 1973 'Balance'), holder of the newly formed Bead label, here along with Richard Beswick on oboe and alto oboe (English horn), Simon Mayo on clarinet and Tony Wren double bass. The restless and dizzying musical trajectories that emanate from this vinyl are indicative of the Bead catalog (a label of limited means, stopped at the vinyl era), as much as ever harbinger of theorems, impulses and hypotheses of form, open and synthetic, for the improvisation of those overflowing years, the flow of which incessantly and propertly flows to the present day.

 

'Chamberpot' uses woodwinds and chordophones, constituting of posed or schizoid dialogues, fragile effective tensions. Of simulated twirls, reactions and agonies between instrumentalists, breaking up, for example, a shrill and capricious violin soliloquy to blossom into a heated dialogue of clarinet, or within an erratic background of double bass or even into dense draperies of oboe. Or spilling together in convulsive rhythm, saturating the performance space. Different and contradictory accents, they mimic nimble, grave, full or in sing-songs, world spaces and times, light and shadow, in limpid ascents or in swirling climbs, observing each other as if in ecstasy or hurling themselves in sudden scuffles, according to structure or in improvisation. Whether it is a single track (the 20 minutes of A side), whose complex habitat is generated and percolated in multiple hypotheses, as a magnetic uninterrupted flow, or whether it is broken forms of more contracted breath, of unequivocal terminology but of avuncular and presumed scope, nervously felt ("Huge", "New", "Scare", "Hits", City", B side). [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

 

Label: Bead Records – BEAD 2 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: UK 

Released: 1976 

Style: Free Improvisation 

 

Tracklist:

A Sleek And Healthy, A Hippo Strolls Along The River Bank 20:08 

B1 Huge 4:18 

B2 New 5:29 

B3 Scare 4:32 

B4 Hits 9:38 

B5 City 1:53 

 

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