Search results
Jan 30, 2024 · If jazz is a music that continually renews itself, where that renewal comes from is an interesting question. The Bristol-based composer and saxophonist Kevin Figes, whose excellent new album ‘Wallpaper Music II’ (following, that’s right, 2021’s predecessor, ‘Wallpaper Music’) takes very contemporary-sounding inspiration from the neglected experimental art-rock and prog of the 1970s.
Feb 12, 2024 · Album cover for ‘Wallpaper Music II’ This second release shows off Kevin Figes’ distinctive compositions, blending jazz, the more relaxed side of prog-rock, and other influences. It features his quartet of top-drawer West Country players, in tandem with the the always-appealing voice of Brigitte Beraha .
March Dance Multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Kevin Figes will release his new album, Wallpaper Music II on 23 February. The recording features Brigitte Beraha on vocals, Jim Blomfield on keyboards, Ashley John Long on bass and Mark Whitlam on percussion and follows Figes’ critically acclaimed quartet album Wallpaper Music (2021 ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Wallpaper Music II is the follow up to the 2021 release Wallpaper Music, which we reviewed very positively here. The recording features Kevin Figes on saxophone, flute and voice, alongside Brigitte Beraha on vocals, Jim Blomfield on keyboards, Ashley John Long on bass and Mark Whitlam on percussion. These of course are the same group of gifted ...
Feb 23, 2024 · Recorded 26-29 January, 2023. This is a wonderful second album of Wallpaper Music from Kevin Figes and his band. Importantly, and integral to music of this kind, is the constant personal with the band line up remaining the same as their debut album from 2021.
May 17, 2024 · Kevin Figes seems to have picked-up the baton of late 1960s, early 1970s early prog-jazz and run with it. As demonstrated on Wallpaper Music (Pig Records, 2021), his influences appear to have been drawn from the likes of Robert Wyatt’s Matching Mole, Henry Cow, Egg, Hatfield And The North, National Health and even shades of Uncle Meat-era Frank Zappa.
Nov 29, 2021 · The sense of music initiated from an idiosyncratic and often very unjazzy confection of sources, and then recorded with the headlong energy of spontaneous performing artists let off the leash after long seclusion, is apparent all over Wallpaper Music. The long opener, ‘More Equal Than Others’, slams together fast, twisting postbop sax figures (the late Elton Dean, and New York downtowner ...
