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June 09

Just returned from an excellent entire week in the studio up in Huddersfield with P.A Tremblay (bass, electronics), Dave Smith (drums) and Robin Fincker (sax, clarinet). Album (possibly plural) to follow....Some random pics on my new photoblog

More nice reviews for Leverton Fox's debut record including this:

Plan B
 
'...full of the edgy joy of discovery.'
 
Despite its folksy title, there is little that's rustic about London jazz/electronics trio Leverton Fox's debut album - but there is much that's organic, if we take organic to mean the dances of cells meeting and dividing or the rhythms of fractal fern growth. Alex Bonney, Tim Giles and Matt Groom use live percussion and brass alongside processed field recordings and pure electronics to create tense, exploratory pieces that recall both early Radiophonics Workshop experiments and, particularly on 'Spume', the meld of acoustic and electronic sound that shapes Herbie Hancock's Sextant. The album's first half is scuttling and gently abrasive, each player poised to contribute clicks, scrapes, brief drones and a grab-bag of modulated electronic sounds used to similar effect by Supersilent. Comparisons to the Norwegian improvising group make more sense as the longer, gentler but noise-inflected 'N4 Comedown' surges into a complex, infectious rhythm. Like them, Leverton Fox stake out the relationship between more idiomatic improvised music, noise and electronica, but do so using a deeply enjoyable vocabulary that, despite the impressive pedigrees of all members, seems at all times full of the edgy joy of discovery.
Plan B - May 2009 - Frances Morgan

May 09

Youtube Video of Dave Kane and I at a recent gig - thanks Cormac!

April 09

Interview with Dave Kane on Jazzwise magazine website. Read here

Also in Jazzwise this month a review of my duo CD woth Dave Kane (available to buy to your right)

After a cool release gig at Dalston's Cafe Oto, Leverton Fox's debut album is available to buy from our Myspace page

 'as if Autechre had formed a band' - Resonance FM

Feb 09

Some nice new photos from my last Vortex gig

Broadsheet reviews of duo with Dave Kane from Feb 09 Loop Collective festival at London's Vortex jazz club .

From the Telegraph:

'In all it was a feast of wonderful music-making. But if I had to fix on one band that captured the weekend’s spirit, it would be the duo of Alex Bonney and Dave Kane. Never did I think such fascinating complication and sly humour and sheer joie de vivre could be conjured from a double bass and a pocket trumpet.'

From the Financial Times:

'It took time to adjust to the next set’s spartan intimacy – bassist Dave Kane’s improv duet with trumpeter Alex Bonney. Each piece was strong in mood, sustained by muffled pluckings, quietly ferocious two-handed assaults and elegiac bowing, with trumpeter Bonney a spiky toned and empathetic partner. '

Full reviews here and here

From Jazzwise magazine:

Continuing in a more off kilter but no less impressive way were bassist Dave Kane and trumpeter Alex Bonney in a charming duet. Mixing energetic free improv with quirky melodies and lopsided rhythms Kane and Bonney’s interaction was mesmerizing, packed full of innate hunour and off hand virtuosity their dialogue was a joy to behold.

Full review here

Duo recording with Dave Kane (bass) was released on Mini Loop records as part of Loop Collective fantastic festival at London's Vortex jazz club on Friday February 13th 2009. You can buy from the paypal button on the top right (no paypal account needed)

Happening first gig with "Knuckle Biter": Alex Bonney (trumpet, electronics) Steve Davis (drums) and Simon Jermyn (bass, electronics) at Belfast's Black Box on March 29th 2009. I look forward to more and an album soon.

December 15th's World Sanguine Report gig at the Vortex London was great. Looking forward to happening WSR 2009!

photo by Russ Escrit