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Kay GRANT - Alex WARD

Fast Talk

Label: Emanem

Format: CD

Genre: Jazz

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The London improvising scene duo of vocalist Kay Grant, a former Downtown NY arists, and clarinetist Alex Ward, have been playing together for decades, here recorded in four live performances and a studio session.
"Singer Kay Grant left the Downtown New York scene some twenty years ago and crossed the Atlantic. Around the same time, schoolboy clarinettist Alex Ward donned long trousers and played in public with Derek Bailey. Since then, they have both been vital members of the London improvising scene, as these duo improvisations - recorded at four recent gigs and one studio session - attest. (Three of the ten pieces also involve live electronic vocal processing.)"

"The English weather flickers across the garden, like a speeded up film. Inside, in high ceilinged rooms, in a big house coming alive, a clarinet and voice, two air columns flavoured with memories and lung, converse. The clarinet has just come back from New York. The voice has been distilling red petals for their essence. They have a lot to say to each other but the dangerous love they share for the liberation of animals breaks through. Out of the bag the creatures jabber excitedly, as they play across the bare wooden floor and Persian rugs."-Zolan Quobble (2011)

Details
Cat. number: Emanem 5021
Year: 2011
Notes:

Digital recordings made in London:
Tracks 1 to 4 Mopomoso @ Vortex on 2010 June 20
Track 5 Klinker @ Salisbury Hotel on 2008 February 15
Tracks 6 & 7 Boat-ting @ The Yacht Club on 2008 December 15
Track 8 Boat-ting @ Bar & Co on 2009 June 15
Tracks 9 - 10 in Studio on 2011 April 20