Hard core fly on the wall – I

I’ve been listening to improvised music for over a decade and I still don’t ‘get it’. Musical friends say I don’t need to ‘understand’. They say I just need to listen. Over the years, that’s exactly what I’ve learned to do. I’m always learning to do it again!

Album review: Network of Lines – (Tilman Robinson) by John Hardaker

Network of Lines is a work of ethereal and pure loveliness – albeit one with a red-blooded heart.

Album review: ECILA (Alice Humphries)

John Hardaker reviews ECILA | ECILA is a startling debut from an exciting new talent and a dazzling new ensemble. The gratifying part is that, here on their debut, we witness the beginning of a road that I truly hope will stretch far far into the future.

A response to Tilman Robinson’s Network of Lines ‘If on a winter’s night a traveller’

Don Jordan | Keep going, don’t look down, keep going, don’t look back, keep going – until it is too late and we are swallowed up in the inferno.

Tilman Robinson – ‘A Winter’s Night’ on an autumn afternoon

“The idea of ‘first chapters’ – short little narrative gestures that leave you hanging for more – ties in nicely with my recent resolution to write shorter pieces. With this in mind I was able to create ten short unrelated pieces corresponding to each of what I call the ‘narrative chapters’.”