UK’s Musique Machine just reviewed TRANSLUCENCE by RENNIE/ROBERTS/SERRIES, which we released earlier on this year. Still available from our bandcamp store.

“Translucence is a four-track example of the improv from bringing together highly prolific Belgian-based Dirk Serrries – acoustic guitar, London-based Tullis Rennie- Trombone, and also London-based Cath Roberts-baritone Sax. The album is often tight and edgy, yet at the same time playful and at points quite boisterous. The album appears as a CD on New Wave Of Jazz- which is curated/ run by Serrries. All of the labels releases come presented in identical white mini gatefolds which feature grey boxes, and inside we get a two-page write-up ( in grey text) about the CD and its players by Guy Peters.The four tracks were recorded live in the studio- with great clarity and balance with the recording capture/ mastering. And really at points, you can almost hear sparks and fire passing between the three players. We open with the nearing nine and half minutes of “Match” and here we find Serrries tightly strummed, strutted, and knocking guitar been bayed, roasted and manically trumpeted by Roberts and Rennie- there’s a wonderful taut urgency to the whole thing, and in the last quarter we get some great manic percussive flirts and darts appearing. The album’s title track comes in just sly of the thirteen-minute mark- with its mixture of tense and constant like honks & tight scrambling to picking guitar detail. Before moving into caustically smoky horn drift, and general angularly buzzing ‘n’ picking. All making for a wonderfully unpredictable run of a track. The album is finished off with its longest track “Found With In”, which comes in at just under the thirteen-and-a-half mark. Here we find strutting to scarping guitar warbling to cheekily trumping horn work. From time to time the guitar drops back for a more upwardly mellow-if slightly angular to playful feel. Translucence is a most worthy, at points nicely surprising and daring example of the improv form- and if you’re looking for a fire-up and urgent example of the form this will be for you..  let us hope these three work together down the line again.” Musique Machine – UK

Tomorrow is the last day of our pre-order bundle offer for the 2 new releases :
HUGO COSTA & PHILIPP ERNSTING – THE ART OF CRASHING cd
JACKSON/SERRIES/VANDERSTRAETEN – DANDELION cd

Only 20 EUR (incl. shipping worldwide), valid thru November 15th so grap yours now at our bandcamp shop.

KODIAN TRIO (Colin Webster/Andrew Lisle/Dirk Serries) toured Germany last year and it’s from this tour that SUCH MUSIC, a radio show on the excellent RESONANCE FM station in London, played an unreleased excerpt from their performance at SUBSOL RAUM in Düssel on March 20th, 2021. Listen to the show on mixcloud or here below. Visit the KODIAN TRIO website for everything else.

A NEW WAVE OF JAZZ is releasing on November 25th two new albums.

We’re offering the albums of course separate but also in a duo package for only 20 EUR (incl. worldwide shipping).  The pre-order is valid thru November 15th, 2022. To pre-order, click here.

HUGO COSTA & PHILIPP ERNSTING – THE ART OF CRASHING
(cd, A New Wave Of Jazz)

“Costa and Ernsting are assertive and confident players who 

don’t hesitate to claim their positions, but most of all, they are keeping up with each other, using their dialogue to explore and expand. And that is what it is about, a quest for ideas and a way for them to co-exist, make sense, keep the story moving forward on all levels. And as far as the greater story is concerned: this album is another fine addition to an endlessly fascinating mosaic of sounds.” Guy Peters 

Pre-Order/listen to the album on bandcamp.

JACKSON SERRIES VANDERSTRAETEN – DANDELION
(cd, A New Wave Of Jazz)

“If the measure of freedom is measured by the resilience of an elastic band, they get close to the point where the rubber is about to snap, but it is exactly at that spot, where they recognise something and react to that with a refreshing lack of explicitness, that you can feel the result, and unfolded potential, of a shared intimacy.” Guy Peters 

Pre-Order/listen to the album on bandcamp.

This Friday, November 4th, Portugese musicians ERNESTO RODRIGUES (viola), GUILHERME RODRIGUES (cello) and NUNO TORRES (sax) team up with Belgian guitarist DIRK SERRIES for an all-acoustic free impro concert at this beautiful chapel in Brecht (Belgium). Don’t miss out.