The duo of Paul Abbot on drum kits, percussion & computer, and Seymour Wright on alto saxophone and feedback, in a massive edge-of-your seat live recording from London's Cafe Oto in 2015, a mix of brutal and beautiful playing with unexpected and surprising twists.
Label: Pleasure of the Text Records Catalog ID: POTTR1306 Squidco Product Code: 22367
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2016 Country: USA Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels Recorded live at Cafe Oto in London, England, on November 24th, 2015 by James Dunn.
"Pah' is a monolithic document of the shared improvisational language of saxophonist Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott, also known as XT. One piece, just under eighty minutes long, begins in the well-traveled territory of contemporary free-jazz, with Wright and Abbott falling into a supersonic velocity that they don't give up until a strange English folk music marks the end of their set; the audience clearly taking a second to register the proceedings.
Recorded live in 2015 at London's Cafe Oto, the duo almost immediately ejects/(r)ejects the typical free jazz tropes as Abbott and Wright spin off into conflicting repetitions and cycles, only to morph and move again just at the point that the listener becomes comfortable. The addition of Wright's use of feedback and Abbott's heavily deconstructed electro-dance textures takes Pah' from elegantly brutal blow out to truly 21st century music, and fits perfectly into the experimental formal and timbral languages of label mates Nate Wooley and Paul Lytton."-Please Of The Text