Laurence Pike, Clayton Thomas, Novak Manojlovic & Peter Farrar release 2nd Believe LP plus free improv from New Orleans trio.
Sydney quartet featuring seasoned improvisors Laurence Pike (drums/percussion), Clayton Thomas (bass), Novak Manojlovic (piano), Peter Farrar (saxophone) make up the astonishing jazz/improv quartet Believe.
John Shand of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote of the first release,“I know of no more sophisticated activity of which humans are capable than freely improvising at this level."
‘Nature’s God’ captures another dimension to a band that is fast becoming one of the most respected creative musical groups in Australia.
BELIEVE connects the spectrum of contemporary creative sound making with the fluid, anything is possible momentum of free jazz. When benchmarks are Albert Ayler and The Necks, and you intend to play for the universe, not the algorithm, the remarkable is possible.
For the past three and half years this Sydney-based quartet has committed to a musical process of learning, exploring, experimenting and growing in public. No other local group has been so committed to live performance.
Out now on digital DL and limited edition vinyl through Ramble Records and Relative Pitch Records
https://ramblerecords.bandcamp.com/album/natures-god
https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/natures-god
Alford, Lipson, and Peake convene somewhere at the intersection of free improvisation, group telepathy, and questionable life choices. Maps and recipes are ignored. Agendas dissolve at first tone. Every sound is an invitation, every interruption a welcome guest, and every wrong turn opens another improbable door. These sounds were not assembled so much as encountered.
Nobody arrived carrying blueprints. Compositions aren't built so much as discovered in real time unearthed, abandoned, rediscovered, then happily knocked sideways by the next unexpected sound. Playfulness outranks perfection. Curiosity beats certainty. The trio's nothing off limits approach rewards the listener with scenes that other "jazz "or "avant garde" artists might not be willing to traverse.
Technical ability is assumed, then immediately forgotten in favor of listening, risk, and play. The trio isn't interested in demonstrating technical supremacy, they're occupied discovering what happens when three imaginations collide at full speed.
The music travels through ecstatic noise, psychedelic murk, sideways grooves, impossible conversations, and the occasional flash of satori before cheerfully forgetting what enlightenment was supposed to accomplish. Structures appear, dissolve, and reappear in unfamiliar forms. Noise becomes melody. Density becomes space. Humour quietly overlooks the focused undertakings.
Extreme interaction is the real architecture here. A fragile resonance carries the same weight as an eruption of feedback. The smallest sound can redirect the entire conversation. Every gesture alters the landscape. Every response redraws the map. This trio is far more interested in collisions, coincidences, impossible timing, accidental architecture, and those rare moments when everyone turns the same unexpected corner at once. Virtuosity, when it appears, arrives disguised as mischief.
Cooked is less a collection of tracks than a series of shared hallucinations. They crawl, bloom, evaporate, argue with themselves, and occasionally wink at the listener before disappearing into psychedelic vapor.
Out now on digital DL and limited edition vinyl through Ramble Records and Relative Pitch Records
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