Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Philip Gibbs: The Clouds Turned Silver
Author: Marcus O'Dair
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Musicians: |
Philip Gibbs (g, prepared g) |
Label: |
FMR Records |
Magazine Review Date: |
July/2014 |
Catalogue Number: |
FMRCD372-0214 |
RecordDate: |
29 May 2013 |
Dunmall and Rogers are members of Mujician, alongside Keith Tippett and Tony Levin; the pair, along with Gibbs, have also played together in various other contexts, including the Nimes album, released in 2004, and 2007's Peace and Joy, for which they were joined by drummer Hamid Drake. The playing here is technically agile and musically sensitive, imbued with all the sturm und drang of three musicians forever adapting and responding so that the whole ensemble moves – just – in parallel. The soundworld may too fluffy and floppy for some: there is something rather 1970s about the flute and guitar. But that they channel free jazz and folk should be no surprise: Dunmall's CV includes work with Danny Thompson, for instance. A sense of the jazz pastoral dominates: the final track, suddenly short after three epics, is reminiscent of Beyond The Missouri Sky by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny, albeit with rather more scrape of rosin and horsehair against bass string.

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