Radical Yorkshiremen Derek Bailey & Simon H. Fell duke it out on guitar and double bass in this 2001 recording, newly remixed and remastered for posthumous release by Rupert Clervaux and Confront’s Mark Wastell
‘At Sound 323’ showcases high grade, improvised fraggle tackle by mutant jazz-bluesman Derek Bailey (*Sheffield, 1930, † London, 2005) and jazz bassist and post-serialist composer, Simon H. Fell (*Dewsbury, 1959, † 2020), two legends of the English free music movement with shared roots in Yorkshire’s extraordinarily fertile experimental music scene. The recording captures them playing in that there London at Sound 323, a (now-defunct) record shop, distributor, and hub for avant-garde music established by Confront’s Mark Wastell in 2002, and which ran ’til 2013.
This performance was the shop and label’s first release and a sort of mission statement, paying witness to the pair pre-, and post-tea (Yorkshire brew with a dash of Henderson’s, obvs) shredding t’ fuck out of their chosen strings. It’s a room recording - no fancy desk involved - and renders them in full flow, h’angry and grouching in the first half as they turn paradigms inside-out with a ravishing flourish, turning to extreme, dissonant shred and finger flay by end of the first half. Post tea they feel reenergised and more aggressive, before snapping into relatively conventional free jazz form (if that’s not an oxymoron), even dipping out to moments of beauty and bleating like wounded sheep, then letting it all collapse in gloriously nimble scree.
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Radical Yorkshiremen Derek Bailey & Simon H. Fell duke it out on guitar and double bass in this 2001 recording, newly remixed and remastered for posthumous release by Rupert Clervaux and Confront’s Mark Wastell
‘At Sound 323’ showcases high grade, improvised fraggle tackle by mutant jazz-bluesman Derek Bailey (*Sheffield, 1930, † London, 2005) and jazz bassist and post-serialist composer, Simon H. Fell (*Dewsbury, 1959, † 2020), two legends of the English free music movement with shared roots in Yorkshire’s extraordinarily fertile experimental music scene. The recording captures them playing in that there London at Sound 323, a (now-defunct) record shop, distributor, and hub for avant-garde music established by Confront’s Mark Wastell in 2002, and which ran ’til 2013.
This performance was the shop and label’s first release and a sort of mission statement, paying witness to the pair pre-, and post-tea (Yorkshire brew with a dash of Henderson’s, obvs) shredding t’ fuck out of their chosen strings. It’s a room recording - no fancy desk involved - and renders them in full flow, h’angry and grouching in the first half as they turn paradigms inside-out with a ravishing flourish, turning to extreme, dissonant shred and finger flay by end of the first half. Post tea they feel reenergised and more aggressive, before snapping into relatively conventional free jazz form (if that’s not an oxymoron), even dipping out to moments of beauty and bleating like wounded sheep, then letting it all collapse in gloriously nimble scree.