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Dave Stapleton, Matthew Bourne's lyrics & chords
This is Edition Records’ first release of many – an album of short, breath-taking improvisations by two of Europe’s finest young improvisers. Seventeen episodic tracks – some clipped fragments, others stunning miniatures – all linked by a seventeen line poem by Julie Tippetts. Each line provides a title, while together Julie’s words have all the elegant simplicity of a Japanese Haiku with lines where syllables would otherwise be. For this is music of combining talents and visions. Simple and stately like the poem that accompanie...read more