Resound

Resound was a trio of Eddie Prévost on drums, Tony Moore on double bass and Peter McPhail on saxophones and flute. It was one of the jazz-based groups the AMM percussionist led in the 1980s, next to his work in free improvisation. Resoundings + gathers the trio's studio album, first issued on LP in 1986, together with a long concert recording. The music stays closer to the jazz tradition than most of Prévost's work with AMM.

The nine studio pieces were recorded at Globe Studios in London on 19 August and 13 December 1985 by Chris Green. Short tracks such as Stick of Rain and Pie, Sky, Die, under three minutes each, sit next to longer pieces like Fantasia in G-men, Machines of Loving Grace? and Captain Swing. The second part is the Firehouse Suite, more than twenty-two minutes recorded in concert at the Fire Station Arts Centre in Oxford, with Michael Gerzon as engineer. McPhail plays alto and the smaller saxophones as well as flute. Dean McFarlane described three improvisers "maximizing their focus on interplay and invention". He found energy and interplay the record's most striking qualities, in music that could also reach listeners of bebop.

This Matchless Recordings CD, MRCD08, combines the 1986 LP with the Oxford concert, with booklet notes by Prévost and front cover artwork by Ray Povey.