'A Jar Full' is the first set of recordings from improvising cellist Charlie Ulyatt and Dictaphone player Joe Posset.

Charlie and Joe became aware of each other’s work via mentions in the excellent TQ fanzine. When Joe was offered a show in Charlie’s home town of Nottingham he asked Charlie along to play a one-off collaboration.

𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨?

Meeting for the first time a few hours before the show, with no previous rehearsal, practice or jam, things seemed to go rather well (𝘊𝘝𝘊 𝘌𝘥.: 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥: 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺). It is this first ever show in Nottingham’s Angel pub that graces side two.

With a side of live dicta/cello wonk in the bag, Charlie and Joe spent a few weeks sending sound files back and forth to improvise over. What you hear on side one are first-take improvisations over each other’s recordings. To keep things fresh we agreed to not listen in advance but simply set up the recorder, hit play and record the outcome.

But what will you hear?

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑏𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑏-𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑓𝑤 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑦-𝑗𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠.

𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑜𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑝 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑗𝑎𝑏 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟.

𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜-𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑒-𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑔𝑔𝑦 𝐷𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑥. 𝑇𝑤𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛!

Charlie Ulyatt: Cello & Baglama / Joe Posset: Dictaphones & Tape

Thanks: Cannonbone’s Daniel Murray for putting on the show at The Angel, Andy TQ for putting us in touch with each other and Andy Crow for putting this damn tape out. You rule.

Mastering props to Councillor Shaun Blezard

Art and design by Crow Versus Crow

Available as 320k MP3 or 24bit FLAC

Tracklisting:

1. At This Lost Hour - 06:13
2. A Reasonable Remedy - 08:01
3. High Head - 02:21
4. At The Angel - 14:06