Scandinavia embraced Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman while America still shunned them.
Alan Wilkinson, punchy prize-fighting saxophonist of the London free improvisation scene, follows his spiritual forebears North to record, at last, with three long-time Norwegian collaborators.
The guitarist Kim Johannesen’s dextrous velocity rings exhibitionistic alarms, but it’s allied to a heroic push to the extremities, sympathetically ensnared by Dag Eric Knedal Andersen’s wild off-beats and Ola Høyer’s volcanically boiling bass.
Wilkinson huffs and puffs and blows their house down, finally spitting out the read to break into his trademark ecstatic babbling.
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Robert Gavin, Twitter