SFS ~ The Ragging Of Time ~ 2015
Bruce's Fingers BF 127.
 
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Composition No 79 	
1 	Lebam Lebam (Un Cauchemar) 	23:19
2 	Unstable Cylindrical Structure 	12:07
3 	The Human Omelette (1926) 	21:06

Shabaka Hutchings: bass clarinet
Alex Ward: clarinet
Simon H. Fell: double bass
Paul Hession: drum set
Richard Comte: guitar
Percy Pursglove: trumpet

The work is in three sections and the band immediately launches into a Morton-esque theme, bouncy and reasonably convincing, before quickly veering into a free improvisation featuring some blistering clarinet work from Ward. In microcosm, this is the model in use throughout: areas of thematic material interlaced or overlaid with a fairly aggressive but not atypical (within efi) improvised section, sometimes with written lines traced in the background, recalling (for me) a strategy used by Braxton among others. Different attacks and groupings are apparently scored with exactitude as the shifts within a given section are crisp and finely contrasting. All of the playing is first rate, especially Ward and Hutchings (the latter a name new to me) and I guess if you listen to the music from a post-Bailey, etc. point of view, you'll be well satisfied. - Brian Olewnick, JUST OUTSIDE