87CD - MPH - Taxonomies - CD plus download

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Considering how long and varied the careers of Alex Maguire, Martin Pyne and Mark Hewins have been, this is the first time that the three have played together, and Discus is the perfect home for their meeting of musical minds as MPH. The CVs of the three members include an incredible variety of musical styles that seems to have culminated in a freedom that is quintessentially pastoral, yet is full of rustling movement and then periods of calm. It is perhaps Martin’s love of tuned percussion and subtle rhythms that prevents these vignettes descending into formlessness, but instead allows them that unlimited freedom that charms from the off.

 

The deep resonance of the low piano notes, the slow chatter of the percussion, the gradual unfurling of the higher piano notes introduce opener “Tormentil”. The percussion is busy, gently urging the piece along, crisp and clear. In the background are hidden things, the odd blare, rustles and creaks. The textures shimmer in the odd silences, a brief guitar snippet is glimpsed through undergrowth. There is that melancholy of early morning apparent here.

 

Each of the tracks is named after various flora and fauna, and there is something in the mystery and vividness of the titles that evokes these restless soundscapes. The structure of “False Jasmine” is not so important. It is more about the movement, with some tension released from the organ while the vibes and snappy percussion shuffle around one another in an awkward but welcoming dance. You feel the random movement of the wild, the action and reaction, jostling and cajoling as the instruments take it in turns, offering one another a chance for comeback. You almost feel wind moving through the studio, snatching at sounds and jerking them around, and then moving on.

 

“Finger Muscle” is slower, with a little more care in the blurred guitar and vibes interactions. The players draw the movements out, savouring them in a way that they didn’t have a chance previously. This and “Meadowsweet” are more about the feelings of the players, less about the reaction to what is being lobbed across the studio, but they don’t allow the sounds to be confined. If they need to briefly scamper, then they do; but the piano and vibes duet is divine and where there is even more space, the vibes echo, hanging in the air like gossamer. On the whole, theirs is an amalgam of styles that becomes a style of their own, but the spare Americana-flecked vibe to “Psychedelic Frogfish”, with its shuffle of brushed snare does head us in a new direction; somewhere desert-y with the lonesome cry of the guitar and the dust-cloud of the Hammond lurking in the distance. 

 

The insistence of the percussion on “Eyebright” is a constant as the languid piano notes drift and decay before our eyes, and that incessant movement travels through the long-form desert vibe of “Purple Loosestrife” as well. Here, over eleven minutes, the trio interact with chuckling creatures playing around your feet, bobbing and weaving, rather like the runaway piano of “Rocket Larkspear” that seems to break away with dizzying hops, skips and jumps. The sensation of chains dragging attempts to keep up with the vivacious piano — but by the time it arrives, it has done everything it needs to and skips laughing into the distance.

As the album draws to a close, the juxtaposition of the vibes-led “Lamina” to the mayhem of the previous track gives you full appreciation of the joy the trio has playing together, and by the time the textural smorgasbord of “Sally Lightfoot” has played out, you do have to sit back and take a breath. Taxonomies is a wonderfully intricate but playful and joyous selection of pieces. A one-off? Who knows, but it would be difficult to follow it up. - Mr Olivetti, FREQ 

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 Most releases by Discus Music are about projects from the Sheffield-scene around Martin Archer. There are exceptions, however, like this one by the MPH trio, which is a trio of Alex Maguire (piano, Hammond organ), Martin Pyne (vibraphone, drums, percussion, electronics) and Mark Hewins (guitars, electronics). The trio started in 2018 when Maguire invited Hewins and Pyne to join forces. All three made their marks and have long and varied careers to look back upon. Mark Hewins operated mainly in Canterbury music-related projects (John Stevens, Elton Dean). Also, Alex MacGuire, who studied with John Cage, Steve Lacy, etc., played with many musicians from the Canterbury-music scene and was a member of the last Hatfield and the North-line up. Besides he also worked with improvisers like Derek Bailey, Tristan Honsinger, and so on. Pyne maybe is the least well-known of the three, but at the same time, he is working with the widest musical range involving classical, jazz, improvisation, dance and theatre productions. No doubt the three met in earlier combinations, but this is the first time they operate as a trio. All improvisations show a different face. They integrate many different influences. The cd opens with the ethereal ‘Tormentil‘ with MacGuire on piano and Pyne playing hand percussion. The delicate soundscaping is also part of many of the following improvisations on this CD. On ‘Finger Muscle’ they a blues, or play with the blues. Likewise ‘Psychedelic Frogfish’ is submerged in a bluesy atmosphere. ’Purple Loosetrife’ is more experimental and has lovely playing on the Hammond organ by Maguire. ‘Rocket Larkspear’ has a strong drive with restless piano playing by Maguirre in the foreground.     ‘Lamina’ starts as a very subtle soundscape, but thickens from time to time into very intertwined playing. Their communicative interactions are a joy, but in the end, it also remains a bit too much without structure. In the end, I asked myself what made me feel a bit uncomfortable about their excursions. Sometimes I hoped for a bit more structure and focus. But no doubt with their spirited and rich interplay there is more than enough to be enjoyed here. – Dorf Mulder, VITAL WEEKLY.

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Under the deceptive guise of easily absorbed melodies and rhythms, this is gently and subversively experimental. Subversive and submersive, this album lurks beneath a deceptively placid surface. No matter the occasional sweetness, and the apparently feather-delicate melodies, those opening notes on the piano betray a touch, a soupçon of menace. In fact, taking the opener Tormentil, the congas, the elusive drone, the light (Alice) Coltrane-ish spirituality, it’s an odd mix on paper but via the ears, it breathes perfect sense. As does #2, False Jasmine which bounces around, strong on the vibes and theremin-like electronics; a frenetic improvised ‘60s B-movie soundtrack (probably a subtle underpinning for the obligatory tripping out scene). Jazzier, bluesier improv comes courtesy of the guitar and organ driving Psychedelic Frogfish… And so on, the trio flows from hypnotic airs to free collision, oddball quirk, pastoral meditation, maybe a touch of Third Stream, and yet everything coheres: balanced, luminous, seductive.  Described individually, the tracks can seem a weird collection but the introspective, unhurried flow of ideas and interplay, and the almost songlike structures lull the ear, leading to a number of ‘How did we get here?’ moments when the conscious brain takes note. In fact, the album cover may be the best indicator of what’s going on: natural, organic music… with thorns. - A JAZZ NOISE

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MPH sind Alex Maguire, Martin Pyne und Mark Hewins. Alle drei sind seit 30-40 Jahren in der britischen Musikszene in vorwiegend jazzig-rockigen Gefilden aktiv, Maguire und Hewins zudem auch in einigen BBS-relevanten Projekten und Bands. Hewins war z.B. schon Mitte der 70er als Gitarrist bei Polite Force tätig (siehe "Canterbury Knights"), später bei Soft Heap (festgehalten auf "A Veritable Centaur"). Zudem war er an Projekten von Richard Sinclair, Hugh Hopper und Elton Dean (siehe z.B. "Bar Torque") beteiligt, und 1999 einer der Tour-Gitarristen von Gong. Auch Maguire war im Canterbury-Bereich aktiv, spielte mit Pip Pyle und Elton Dean, war der letzte Tastendrücker von Hatfield And The North, und ist, neben Tätigkeiten in diversen eigenen Projekten (z.B. dem Alex Maguire Sextet), eine der Macher der Band douBt. Pyne betätigte sich dagegen bisher eher in Jazzkreisen, bzw. beschäftigt sich mit Elektronischem oder frei Improvisiertem.

 

2018 taten sich die drei zusammen, um Canterbury-inspirierte Musik zu improvisieren. An zwei Tagen im August spielte man verschiedene Nummern ein, die im Herbst 2019 von Discus Music unter dem Titel "Taxonomies" auf CD veröffentlicht wurden. 

 

Hammond Orgel, Piano, Vibraphon, Gitarren, allerlei Perkussion und diverse elektronische Sounderzeuger bedienen die drei Protagonisten vornehmlich, und verweben diese frei improvisiert zu dichten, sehr abwechslungsreichen, eher ruhig und getragen dahin wogenden Gemengen. Erstaunlich sanft und luftig ist diese Musik über weite Strecken, vor allem im Vergleich zu den dem Rezensenten bekannten früheren Werken der Beteiligten, vor allem Hewins’ ("A Veritable Centaur" sei hier nochmal erwähnt). Fast zerbrechlich sind diese Klänge oft, bestehend aus verhaltenem Gitarrenzupfen, hallenden Pianolinien, dezenter Perkussion, glockigem Vibraphon und verspieltem Georgel. Die Orgel ist eigentlich das einzige Instrument, welches bisweilen etwas lauter aufbraust. Zusammen mit den Elektronikklängen sorgt sie aber auch für eine gewisse krautig-kosmische Atmosphäre, für ein freiere Wuseln und Wabern, das an die frühen 70er gemahnt (man höre z.B. "False Jasmine"), an Soft Machine oder auch Terry Riley. 

 

Richtig laut wird es hier also selten, doch ist diese Musik auch keine seichte Fahrstuhlmusik. Durchaus frei und klangmalend gleiten die verschiedenen Instrumentallinien durcheinander, eher getragen zwar meist, aber bisweilen schon angeschrägt und kantig, mit experimentellem Charakter. In "Rocket Larkspear" ist man auch einmal verhalten, fast free-jazzig am Wüten, und gegen Ende des abschließenden "Sally Lightfoot" lässt das Trio es fast krachen. Viele fast erhabene, delikat wabernde und kristallin strahlende Stellen gibt es aber auch. Will sagen, "Taxonomies" bietet nicht schräges Improvisationsgequietsche Marke nichtgeölte Tür, sondern vorwiegend atmosphärische Tongespinste und Klanglandschaften mit jazzig-Canterburyartiger Atmosphäre.

 

Instrumentale und sehr farbige Improvisationen mit Canterbury-Flair bietet "Taxonomies" also, elektronisch schwebend, jazzig wuselnd, kosmisch wabernd und freiformatig tonbastelnd. Wer die formloseren Exkurse, elektronischen Einlagen und jazzigen Experimente von z.B. Soft Machine bzw. den verschiedenen Projekten der einzelnen Mitglieder jener Band schätzt, sich das Ganze aber entspannter, gelassener und verspielter vorstellen kann, versehen mit jazzigem Pianogeklimper, der/dem sei "Taxonomies" sehr empfohlen. - Achim Brieling, BABYBLAUE SEITEN

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A deceivingly splendid recording of totally improvised pieces done live in the studio over a two day period, that often fools the listener into being certain the music was previously composed and rehearsed. But that is the measuring stick of great musicians who can come together, play on the fly, and create magic. This is precisely what the trio MPH did here. And the fact that the three have never played together (Maguire had played individually each with Pyne and Hewins, but none of them all together as one band) before makes it an even more remarkable.

From ethereal adventure, exotic journey (not too far from Oregon, various ECM outfits, and high-end ambient fusion bands), psychedelic impetus, avant jazz (Keith Tippett and early company, outer limit jazz), playful encounter, starlight escapades, tilted thresholds, all in contemplative theater, 'Taxonomies' gifts all of those and beyond. If indeed there was a proposition, the three musicians here may have established that they would open the floodgates to allow anything, and for all brain cells to work in unison, to make a masterpiece. The declaration was achieved.

Nothing is stationary, but all is a steady revolution around an axis, that moves either suddenly with alarm, slowly and carefully, and/or spasmodic with suggestion. All with intention and lyrical dissolve. After one listen, it is obvious that these three artists have great patience, to let the impromptu music flow as it will, and take its place, in a rightful order, no matter what the urge might have tried to suggest otherwise. Alex Maguire - piano / Hammond organ, Martin Pyne - vibraphone / drums / percussion / electronics, and Mark Hewins - guitars / electronics, make a fascinating debut release together.

The first session was with Alex (the man who suggested this project) playing mainly Hammond organ. The second day was with him on acoustic piano. Mark performed digital slide guitar and electronics, and Martin took on vibraphone and electronics, drums, and Wave drum on day one. Then on second session, Mark played jazz guitar and electronics, while Martin handled acoustic vibraphone with or without treatments, and percussion. Spots of the jazz guitar give off shades of Ralph Towner/Bill Frisell, yet so many substantial influences exist to pin down anything broad.  

The titles of the works are inspired by various flora and fauna, sich as 'False Jasmine', 'Meadowsweet', 'Purple Loosestrife', and 'Sally Lightfoot'. The names are to suggest "timeless narrative, characters, landscapes and mindscapes." This they do, in full bloom. The catholic palette of settings from lazy daydreaming to rippling directions, and exotic chance, provides the audience with a series of short films for the ears and imagination. 'Taxonomies' is very curious, distinguished and inventive. - Lee Henderson, BIG BEAUTIFUL NOISE

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MPH came together in 2018 at the suggestion of Alex Maguire, who had previously worked separately with both Martin Pyne and Mark Hewins. Given their varied backgrounds in jazz, free improvisation, rock and classical musics, dance and theatre, it is no surprise that the three have performed a music here that is gloriously eclectic and wide-ranging in its references, by turns playful, ethereal, abrasive, earthy, delicate and lyrical. 

 

What is surprising, however, is that the entire set is totally improvised. I say surprising, not because the musicians are not themselves fine improvisers, but that the music sounds almost through composed in places, or at least structurally organised. There is a solid logic to each piece, the wooden percussion of Pyne on the opening Tormentil, for example, shuffling out a rhythm over which Maguire plays a delightfully engaging melody set off by Hewins’s Latin guitar, together sounding as if this was a piece into which they had put considerable thought beforehand. Likewise, the intertwining of vibes, piano and guitar on Finger Muscle suggests prior organisation. But not so, if they are to be believed. 

 

Interestingly, the first day’s music, with Maguire on organ sounding more like Sun Ra than anyone else, is looser and more evidently improvised, but again still has a form about it that suggests pre-thought. That tension between free improvisation in the studios and harmonic and rhythmic coherence on the finished CD is what gives this set its power, and its great appeal. 

 

By the way, all the track titles are, in their words, “inspired by the wonderfully evocative traditional names for various flora and fauna, suggestive of timeless narratives, characters, landscapes and mindscapes.” Evocative, that’s the best word to describe this set. - Simon Adams, JAZZ JOURNAL

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Wholly improvised music doesn’t hit my radar much these days – gone are the days when some of Elton Dean’s more obtuse workings arrived through the postbox with a reverberating clunk – and a slight nervousness on my part as to what they might contain musically. ‘Taxonomies’ is the opposite – an album I actively sought out as it was clear on hearing the first few bars on Bandcamp that this was an album not only worth pursuing, but likely to involve rewards for repeated listening.

 

Some context: this is a collaboration between three musicians, two with a clear Canterbury vintage. Guitarist Mark Hewins is something of a hero in these quarters: he pursued many of our mutual inspirations to Canterbury in the Seventies where he collaborated with the likes of Dave and Richard Sinclair and Graham Flight in the Polite Force, resurrected Soft Heap with John Greaves, Pip Pyle and Elton Dean in the Eighties, and collaborated with Hugh Hopper extensively in the Nineties. He also pioneered the Canterbury scene’s presence on the web with musart.co.uk, and remains particularly  active in convening various Canterbury ‘supergroups’ of sorts – a resurrected MASHU with Shyamal Maitra and Jack Monck this autumn in Gasny, plus a current collaboration with Lyn Dobson (from Soft Machine’s ‘Third’) and Eric Peachey (Khan). Pianist Alex Maguire was a long-time collaborator with both Pip Pyle and Phil Miller and architect of the remarkable memorial concerts which celebrated the musical legacy of the latter at the start of 2019. Martin Pyne is the multi-faceted percussionist player who completes this rather excellent trio. 

 

‘Taxonomies’ is relatively sonically benign for the most part: with piano and vibraphone providing wonderfully organic sounds, often in tandem, whilst Hewins alternates between etched out guitar textures one will recall from his ‘Adreamor’ album with Hugh Hopper, and some subtle bluesy themes. Best of all are the opener ‘Tormentil’, where Maguire’s tinklings recall Sophia Domancich’s beautiful melodies on Pip Pyle’s ‘Up’ (common ground here as both were latter-day keyboard players with Hatfield and the North), set against some gently propelling hand drums from Pyne. Or ‘Finger Muscle’, a sleazy jazz growler with cascading piano and vibe brought back to base time and time again by Hewins’ guitar. The eerie building of atmosphere within ‘Meadowsweet’ and the beautiful chimes of ‘Eyebright’ set against the gentle pitter patter of percussion, are also fine moments.  Elsewhere the soundscapes are more questioning, particularly further into the album, where Maguire’s spooked out Hammond organ, particularly on ‘Purple Loosestrife’ conjures up visions of a somewhat nightmarish fairground ride.  Or ‘Rocket Larkspear’ where Maguire’s virtuosic navigation around his piano creates a Keith Tippett-like pummelling of the eardrums.  These later tracks are not an easy ride, but shouldn’t detract from some of the simple beauty of many of the earlier themes in the album.

 

Just an explanation of the various exotic titles here: ‘Taxonomies’ was recorded live over two days, taking its inspiration from a variety of unusual fauna and flora, and is namechecked not only in its track listings but also captured in Mark Hewins’ stunning photography contained in the packaging surrounding this unusual release. - FACELIFT

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Ha l’aria di una provocazione, seppur probabilmente involontaria, aver intitolato in questo modo un disco di musica assolutamente inclassificabile, frutto di due giornate di improvvisazioni in studio a opera di musicisti che prima d’ora non avevano mai avuto modo di suonare tutti e tre insieme. L’unica vera linea guida sembra essere proprio quella scelta dal trio per intitolare i brani, pescando dal suggestivo repertorio delle denominazioni scientifiche di piante, foglie, pesci e crostacei, sulla base della loro capacità di evocare narrazioni e personaggi senza tempo, paesaggi naturali e mentali.

 

Ne risulta una tassonomia sonora che non offre riferimenti certi, assumendo come principio lo smarrimento. D’altronde, qui non si può parlare di mescola tra i generi che rimangono distintamente percepibili, ma di un genere che allude a quelli storici, quelli sì ormai catalogati: jazz, ambient, world music, new age, blues. Tutto è accennato, eppure l’insieme è straordinariamente compatto, ogni cosa riluce e si rabbuia insolitamente, l’atmosfera è perennemente misteriosa, perturbante; serpeggia inquietudine anche nei frangenti più luminosi.

 

Si prenda la leggiadra Tormentil che apre l’album. È attraversata da arpeggi di piano ricchi di grazia e di serenità, ma è difficile liberarsi dalla sensazione di un pericolo in arrivo, di una minaccia incombente. L’agitazione pervade la dimensione misteriosa che anima la successiva False Jasmine, condotta da Maguire all’organo Hammond (impiegato in tutta la prima seduta di registrazione, passando nella seconda al solo pianoforte). Con il suo andamento concitato, il brano sembra raccontare qualche misterioso frangente svoltosi in piena penombra. Altro cambio di scena in Finger Muscle più schiettamente bluesy e totalmente acustica con Maguire al piano e un sorprendente Pyne al vibrafono.

 

Da segnalare, ancora, Eyebright, che discioglie lentamente e mai del tutto un mistero coagulato da un tempo incalcolabile, Purple Loosestrife, lungo srotolamento di suoni sottoposti a differente forza di gravità e il guizzo schiettamente jazzistico di Rocket Larkspear, infestato da alcune interferenze aliene di sottofondo e segnato da un notevole botta e risposta tra piano e vibrafono. Splendido il brano posto in chiusura, Sally Lightfoot, che altro non è che un grosso granchio. Crostaceo difficile da catturare e anche i suoni che qui procedono a tempo di marcia, dettato alla perfezione da Pyne, sfuggono alla presa, con movimenti repentini che ne modificano la corsa, tra accelerazioni e sospensioni, serpentine dell’Hammond e pulviscolo elettronico che eludono la caccia della possibile categorizzazione. Tassonomia dell’altrove, ecco il titolo completo del disco. - Fucile, MUSICA JAZZ

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MAGUIRE PYNE HEWINS, in addition to MPH, is a trio of spirits among the world's seasoned improvisation. For these musicians, everything is allowed to them and from then on they allow themselves everything, which goes from the most classical to the craziest, from the most moving to the most humorous. But this is the first time, on Taxonomies, that they have pooled their exceptional talents. And they chose nature as their inspiration.  It was Alex MAGUIRE - pianist and organist who has collaborated on many "Canterbury" bands with Hugh HOPPER, Elton DEAN, Pip PYLE, Richard SINCLAIR, etc. - who came up with the idea of forming this trio, after playing individually with Martin PYNE, drummer and percussionist, and Mark HEWINS, guitarist also well known in the "Canterbury" milieu (Elton DEAN, Hugh HOPPER, SOFT HEAP, MASHU, GONG...).  Each was able to draw in his own experience to go, often very far, in delicacy, atmospheric or, on the contrary, in the heavy and abrasive. We will recognize here and there the influence of the abstract jazz of Jimmy GIUFFRE or that, even more esoteric, of John CAGE.  First, the almost ten minutes of False Jasminewere improvised. But time does not count during an improvisation. What matters is the inspiration and self-confidence to put this inspiration into music. However, canning a first piece is still crucial. That's what really launches the machine.  Once the machine is launched, all you have to do is unroll, piece by piece, with a concrete confidence and a pleasure to play, to improvise, always renewed. And then, it only took two short days to complete the recordings without anything to be retouched. This is proof of the stratospheric quality of this fantastic trio. - Frédéric Gerchambeau, RYTHMES CROISES

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Late in summer 2018, three seasoned jazz heads debuted their trio in two South Eastern England studios for one electric freeform extravaganza. Seasoned by existing rapport and strong associations with the likes of Gong, Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper and the post Soft Machine outfit, Soft Heap, the musicians Alex Maguire (piano / Hammond organ), Martin Pyne (vibraphone / percussion) and Mark Hewins (guitars) soon jammed themselves into a crepuscular funk and left the tape rolling in the confidence that ever stranger sights awaited their every turn. 

 

While their serendipitous abbreviation, MPH, waggishly suggests physical distance, the trio traffics exclusively in free association between oneirically familiar points of reference (e.g. blues, jazz etc.) using the tools of brooding piano and percussion, electric microtonal squigglings and lysergic harmonics. Early tracks like ‘Torment’ and ‘Eyebright’ might gull listeners into expecting safe and easy listening between laconic night jazz and minimal improv with just a swirl of In a Silent Way (‘False Jasmine’), but it quickly (if not ostentatiously) moves to the margins. 

 

Later tracks like ‘Purple Loosestrife’ and ‘Rocket Larkspear’ offer bumpier rides: organ and piano going bonkers and chromatically scaling lawn bumps in a cold metallic light. At ‘Lamina’ we are summarily dumped in the middle of nowhere, except it’s not us but the musicians who are blindfolded and comically groping for the escape route while signaling their locations in different tongues. Such chimeric genre permutations are well served by the titular taxonomy of Borgesian beasts (‘Psychedelic Frogfish’ is another) assigned to many of the tracks as though such acts of naming provide the only way to render these unusual events audible to human ears.- Stuart Marshall, SOUND PROJECTOR

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Taxonomy is defined as "the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms”. It’s not readily apparent why the trio of Alex Maguire, Martin Pyne, and Mark Hewins chose the plural of that word as their album title, since the music blossoming out of the speakers does its very best to defy easy categorization, classification, or otherwise. Perhaps a better way of looking at this recording is that its creators sculpt it from basic genre materials but then allow those materials to mutate, née reshape, themselves into wholly new sonic organisms. Couldn’t imagine three better performers suited for the task. Maguire attacks piano and Hammond organ with a joie de vivre not unlike fellow keystroker Chris Abrahams; both players warp and wrap their hands around their instruments with a facility that defies imagination, human sequencers that raise repetition and endurance to a fine art. The vibraphone’s rich history isn’t lost on percussionist Pyne, whose objects become transmogrified by electronics as well as whirlwind handstruck force, but he wrestles his chimes away from the legacies wrought by Mssrs. Burton, Jackson, or Dickerson; on this kaleidoscopic soundstage, his contributions lunge instead of lounge, well in evidence during the diverse and episodic “False Jasmine”. Hewins remains one of the great unsung guitar reinventors in modern music, inverting/subverting the guitar outside contexts little contemplated post-Rowe and post-Holdsworth. His style can sound instantly accessible one minute (check out the piquant yet steely chords writhing about “Psychedelic Frogfish”) then descend into veritable abyssal depths of quark strangeness and charm the next (as on the polyglot phrasings of “Purple Loosestrife”). Despite the complexities of their individual component parts, Taxonomies is truly a group effort, all three musicians inhabiting realms usually plumbed by cosmonauts of a Sun Ra stripe. And on these ten quirky, endlessly fascinating explorations of rhythm and noise, genres dissolve into the ether, forever traveling the spaceways. - DARREN BERGSTEIN, Downtown Music Gallery (downtownmusicgallery.com)

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In short, there are a number of families and sub-families, identical and contradictory approaches, and yet it works perfectly as a whole. - Petr Slaby. HisVoice

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