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1 | Based Curve | 8:30 |
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2 | Animist Shuffle | 10:07 |
| 3 | Blue Star | 8:01 | |
| 4 | Call 1 | 5:41 | |
| 5 | Boon Craver | 10:09 | |
| 6 | Call 2 | 5:16 | |
| 7 | Absent Sprit | 11:11 | |
| 8 | Below South | 2:38 |
"Originally formed in the mid noughties, when Wilkinson depped for an indisposed Lol Coxhill, the Edwards / Noble / Wilkinson trio quickly established itself as one of the most vibrant combinations on the London Improvised music circuit, playing often atthe earlier iteration of OTO, and around Britain on festivals at home and in Europe. They produced 2 highly acclaimed CDs for Bo’Weavil Recordings the second of which ‘Live at Café OTO’ was voted one of Stewart Lee’s CDs of the decade in The Times. Their music is characterised by a fearless approach to improvisation with lightning responses, flipping from time to abstraction and back again, incorporating inflexions from a vast array of influences. Its great to hear them again.'
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Alan Wilkinson / alto and baritone sax, clarinet and bass clarinet
John Edwards / double bass
Steve Noble / drums and percussion
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Recorded live at Cafe OTO by Shaun Crook on 18.10.20. Mixed and mastered by Alex Ward. Design and loyuot by Noble and Blake.
Steve Noble is London's leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more.
In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey's excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins).
