Yann Charaoui, John Lely, Seymour Wright
396
FormatCDLabelMatchless RecordingsGenreExperimental
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396 is the first CD by the trio of Yann Charaoui, John Lely and Seymour Wright, young improvisers whom Eddie Prévost presented on his label. In his note Prévost hears in it a new austerity. Traditional instruments are turned into complex sound transformers, able to stand beside the new sources offered by electronics and computers.
The session took place at Gateway Studios in Kingston-upon-Thames on 2 August 2000, engineered by Steve Lowe. Charaoui plays cymbals and table-top samplers, Lely piano and a prepared bal-bal tarang (the Indian keyed zither usually spelled bulbul tarang), and Wright alto saxophone. The four pieces are titled only by numbers, 2, 4, 5 and 13, and three of them run between seventeen and almost thirty minutes. All three players returned the following May for the closing day of the Freedom of the City festival in London, heard on the Matchless double CD Seventh of May 2001.
Released by Matchless Recordings as MRCD 42, a single CD with the painting 396 by Lester Wright on the cover.
