Phil Miller In Cahoots: Mind Over Matter

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Paul Booth (ts)
Phil Miller (g)
Mark Armstrong (MD)
Peter Lemer (p)
Mark Fletcher (d)
Phil Miller (g)

Label:

Crescent Discs

May/2012

Catalogue Number:

CD9CD

RecordDate:

13 and 29 November 2009, and 25 January 2010

Things may come and things may go but like the Art School Dance, Phil Miller goes on forever. In Cahoots may have said sad farewells to the late lamented likes of Pip Pyle and Elton Dean, but Miller's signature sound continues, as recognisable now as in Matching Mole days. Mind Over Matter features, as you might imagine, plenty of free fl owing rock jazz. There's also a funky undertow as on the opening joyful groove of ‘Medley’. It's big, it's epic and it may sound strangely like 1975 all over again, dripping as it is with Lemer's splendidly old school synths, but that's no criticism. This is music to be enjoyed rather than questioned, and with stellar contributions from Paul Booth and the fiery trumpet of Armstrong, notably on ‘Pent Up Part II’, there's plenty to remind you that a dash of blaring brass and a fuzz bass break can still make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.

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