Two separate live recordings from the UK sax & drum duo of Massimo Magee on tenor, alto and sopranino saxophones, and drummer Tony Irving (Ascension), both captured in 2019 at The Globe in Newcastle Upon Tyne and at Hundred Years Gallery in London, as they burn through three free jazz dialogs of passionate playing informed by personal history and creative drive.
Label: 577 Records Catalog ID: 5835 Squidco Product Code: 28572
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: USA Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Tracks 1 and 3 recorded at The Globe, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, on January, 28th, 2019 by Massimo Magee.
Track 2 recorded at the Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK on January, 19th, 2019 by Joshua Weitzel.
"These explosive live recordings capture Tony Irving (from legendary UK group Ascension) & Massimo Magee (up-and-coming writer, artist, and musician based in London) in full, incendiary flight on two dates in their early 2019 UK duo tour.
The music is an impassioned statement of transcendental yearning, refracted through some of the more intense possibilities of the acoustic drum kit and saxophone duo on two separate January evenings. It is informed strongly by the free jazz tradition which the duo takes as its vital spark and the timeless relevance of that music to essential human struggle, with urgency and insistence that reflects the contemporary condition. It is a music that, at heart, resists analysis because its eyes are set firmly on achieving a state about which no words could be said, a state that 'gives a holiday to every sense'. This live album is an example of that ongoing endeavor."-577 Records