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The Herald -
Review - Rob Adams - 4/5
The F-IRE
collective represents some of the London jazz scene's most
energetic and imaginative young musicians, and it's the
imaginative aspect that features strongly on its latest
release. Led by guitarist and composer Jonny Phillips,
Oriole is a nonet, including cello, tenor saxophone, bass
clarinet and keyboards, with inf luences straddling tango,
choro, Erik Satie, African rhythms and the melodic end
of art rock.Indeed, the gorgeous Remedius could have been
written for Robert Wyatt. Julia Biel, however, handles
its aching, wordless contours beautifully and Deep Snow,
is beguiling. Elsewhere, the instrumentalists, underpinned
by Aberdonian Seb Rochford's superbly fluent drumming,
combine to make creative, compact and affectingly understated
music.
21/05/2005
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