(Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, FMR) George Burt & Raymond MacDonald Octet feat. Lol Coxhill - Popcorn - 2003, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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George Burt / Raymond MacDonald Octet / Popcorn
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REM GENRE "Avant-Garde Jazz"
REM DATE 2003
REM DISCID 4E0D2806
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TITLE "Popcorn"
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POPCORN sees the ranks of Glasgow’s prodigious Burt/MacDonald Quartet swollen to octet levels by the incorporation of long-term sparring partner Lol Coxhill, free-thinking German saxophonist Christoph Reiserer, vocalist Nicola MacDonald and wild-card conceptualist Aileen Campbell, who uses her voice to accompany the droning of a popcorn machine and a hairdryer. Initially, the tendency would be to dismiss such a methodology as so much gimmickry. However, the utilis-ation of objects from the immediate environment as a source of expressive sonic material feels like a logical extension of flash-of-the-moment improvisatory tactics, and there’s a long history of musicians fleshing out conventionally played pieces by exploiting their surrondings in novel ways. Think of drummers Han Bennink or Chris Corsano’s use of floors, walls, toys and body parts as percussive stand-ins, or AMM’s Keith Rowe, applying anything from vibrators to whisks as impromptu teases for his guitar. Throughout Popcorn, though, the fact that what’s generating these sounds is a popcorn machine and a hairdryer remains clear. This lends Campbell’s wounded vocal drones and whoops an added poignancy which nods towards a dream-home heartache and verbal breakdown soundtracked by the pops and clicks of domestic gadgetry. Campbell’s contribution forces the group into a striking dynamic rethink. Drummer Allan Pendreigh and bassist George Lyle generate phantom rhythmic possibilities, little knots in time that are as tonal as they are propulsive, while guitarist George Burt still manages to thread flinty lunar notes into the mix, sounding a little like US avant guitarist Nels Cline. The horns are a tangle of activity; popping, slurping and cooing, but they’re most effective when the voices cohere into a single forked stream, engulfed in the forlorn drone generated by Campbell’s machines. It’s an oddly affecting disc: melancholy, at points genuinely challenging, and testimony to both the seriousness with which the group approach the generative source material and their ability to triumph in the unlikeliest of scenarios.

Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Raymond MacDonald
Double Bass – George Lyle
Drums – Allan Pendreigh
Guitar – George Burt
Soprano Saxophone – Christoph Reiserer, Lol Coxhill
Voice, Melodica – Nicola MacDonald
Voice, Performer [Popcorn Machine], Performer [Hairdryer] – Aileen Campbell
Recorded at The Foundry, June 29th 2003