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Vole : Radio 1 (UK,2007)***'
Vole is a mysterious outfit of musicians, who compiled here some recordings from their radio and internet broadcasts from their own local radioshow on radio 4A Brighton. We hear 7 short tracks between 1 and 3 and a half minutes only, cut out fragments of what I assume came from longer improvisations or perhaps just one or two sessions. The tracks fit well with one another, but perhaps don’t flow enough into eachother to give enough the feeling of a concept, an idea or a mindful structure. And although the individual tracks show great moments, they often end abruptly. All improvisations have soft percussions, are rather moody and calm sound-and harmonic explorative free jazz styled, with a possible portion of acid.
First track is played by something what sounds like trumpet, sitar, cowbells, cups and plastic dishes. It abruptly stops before it almost started. Track two is build from what seems like background talk on tape, experimental acoustic and electronic sound manipulations or is this looped fast bass percussion, with a trumpets and sax improvisation. Track 3 shows calm madmen vocal sounds, percussion with a vibrating pencil, screaming-like-a-scraping-throat-vocals sax, and the calm crushing of plastic cups. This also stops abruptly just when it started to build towards something promising. Was this the only perfect moment in it ? Track 4 is played by and improvised with trumpet, sax, percussion, flute, with a mood of opening up space, near the ground, but also ends quickly. Track 5 is played by sax, trumpet, and cello, in a nice and free improvisation. Track 6 and 7 are nice continuations. We hear a flute improvisation, organ-kind of sounds breathing, and pulsating its way through, and some piano. Last track is performed by lots of percussion, harmonica, calm madmen (again!) breathing vocals, bass tones, and a sax used to make wind bubbles. Strange, and nice. Now the next thing would be to bring such recordings or kind of improvisations into one big construction, and let them roll their course.
