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Geoff Winston about Assemblée at London Jazz Festival: londonjazznews/2013/11/review-luc-ex-assemblee-electric-epic.html It was a joy to see the finesse and maturity of Luc Exs Assemblée, which brought together reeds master Ab Baars, and the unfailingly impressive saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock with Hamid Drakes finely honed percussion and Luc Exs own disarmingly muted excursions on electro-acoustic bass. They carved out space with an innate sense of musical vision, created witty and starting dialogues around Lucs demanding compositional frameworks and bounced melodic aggregations against an irrepressible subversive intent. Lucs boundless energy channelled in to low volume acoustic output was a delightfully illuminating contrast to his usual powerhouse role in The Ex. Baars flipped back and forth from sax to clarinet, to suit the turns of the intoxicating, rapidly executed duets with Laubrock, which had the two of them briefly take on the sound of a Roland Kirk double sax blast, and Drake worked the pace around with deceptive aplomb, maintaining an equilibrium flecked with carefully placed points of tension. A masterclass for the early hours of Monday morning in Dalston.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:36:09 +0000

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