Wednesday 20 June 2018

Wingfield Reuter Sirkis - Lighthouse


Wingfield Reuter Sirkis
Lighthouse
Moonjune Records




This ‘boy band’ wasn’t put together by producer Leonardo Pavkovic because they could sing or dance, but because he knew each is a master of his musical field.  The collaboration gives improvisation a fresh makeover suitable for the twenty-first century.  It’s almost new age yet employs both jazz and progressive rock ideas.

Mark Wingfield’s signature sound is to push his guitar to the limit by manipulating the notes and pitch into something visionary by pedals, pick-ups and processors that create a cleaner feedback sound whilst simultaneously being able to lay down chords in the background.

Composer and instrument designer of TouchGuitars, Markus Reuter who has built on the premise of fretboard tapping that emerged in the 1950’s, brings his eight-stringed beast of bass to keyboard ambient textures and soundscapes but is also capable of taking his turn in the spotlight of lead performer.

Drummer Asaf Sirkis has built an impressive CV with his own groups The Inner Noise and his own Trio, but has also worked with the Gilad Atzmon & the Orient Ensemble, Natasha Atlas, Polly Scattergood and the inimitable Norman Watt-Roy on his solo album Faith and Grace.  Sirkis says music gives him the legitimacy to be who he really is and the rhythms and cymbal work are enthralling and it feels like he takes the lead especially on the first two tracks of Lighthouse, Zinc and Derecho.

There were no prior compositions of this recording.  The only methodology was to decide which notes may be called upon in each improvisation.  Each musician produces an intermittent signal, a navigational aid for the others to absorb and react to in real time.

Fans of albums that break genre boundaries, and throw the template away, have a new leading light to follow.

NE

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