Splatter
Splatter play improvised music that is not quite many things. It isn't quite jazz, it isn't quite free jazz, it isn't quite free improvisation, it isn't quite avant rock or plain old rock, or folk music or contemporary music - it is all of these things, mixed together in the moment - sometimes in the same tune. TimeOut remarked that Splatter “feed shards of rock and black metal into their freeform jazz Soundscapes". It's close enough...
Anna Kaluza (alto sax) // Noel Taylor (clarinet) // Pedro Velasco (guitar) // Tom Greenhalgh (drums)
Both albums are available to buy in CD and Digital format from Bandcamp
Each track seemed to move and develop according to some internal logic of its own, not perhaps the result of some mystic moment of synthesis so much as the outcome of highly focused efforts to understand each other's musical sensibilities. The title - 'cloudseed' - reflects this outpouring, the result of adding one extra ingredient to produce no mere splattering of creative rain but a veritable downpour.
Cloudseed
Scraffiti is a mix - frantic free jazz to lyrical tunes, some of which are written, some of which just emerged on the day. The moods swing from gentle yearning, through buoyant optimism, to jerking dislocated beats that rattle your bones.
Scraffiti
