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Desire Lines - The Occasional Quartet

by Garry Todd Nigel Coombes Nick Stephens Tony Marsh

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The Path of Lefteousness 35:34
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Desire Lines 21:58

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"They create a music that is never quite pointilistic and a bit too active to be droney or minimalist. Yet, both aesthetics rear their heads from time to time; there is a series of recurring moments in the first long track during which the dynamic drops and all four players hold a note, trill, or brush in long undulating waves. The slow reemergence of multileveled pulse is always a wonder to behold" - Marc Medwin All About Jazz.

Nick Stephens meat-grinding pluck-and-arco hybrid causes a low-frequency boom in well determinate sections. ...this music is “energizing” and “talkative” is reductive to say the least. Indeed, there is the risk of a communication overload: not a moment of “stop and take a breath”, if not for – ahem – occasional circumstances where the torrential expressiveness of the instrumentalists remains confined into slightly more tranquil settings. Propelled by Tony Marsh’s mercurial drumming, strongly characterized by the now-shrieking-now-nicer violin masterfully raped by Nigel Coombes.. these two long improvisations call for attention every minute, preventing the listeners from even thinking to anything else. Like brats who keep pulling dad’s jacket in order for him to buy the umpteenth toy, with the difference that The Occasional Quartet are the ones doing the kick-ass in this case. Massimo Ricci - Touching Extremes

'Purposefully straying from the path' - the path people make when they want to cut across a grassy area instead of following the prescribed walkway, the path that takes us where we really want to go.
Landscape artists have a rather poetic name for these impromptu, unofficial, renegade paths, they call them desire lines. - Robert Finch

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" Ralph Waldo Emerson

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released August 1, 2007

Garry Todd - tenor saxophone
Nigel Coombes - violin
Nick Stephens - double bass
Tony Marsh - drums

Recorded 13th April 2006
Recorded and produced by Nick Stephens
Artwork 'Sutton Park' and design by Fay Stephens

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British Bassist Nick Stephens created Loose Torque Records in 2005 to make available undocumented live recordings of improvised music and free jazz. The current catalogue of 30 CDs also features contemporary live and studio recordings.
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