MP3 Uncle Rabbit - 200 Used Cars

Three musicians, three tastes merging together â elements from free Jazz, through to R&B and even Heavy Metal: itâs 'impro beat' - improvisations that develop and flow from subtle shifts of rhythm

13 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Acid Jazz, AVANT GARDE: Structured Improvisation

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âUncle Rabbitâ, based in London, consists of Noel Taylor (clarinet and sax), Sebastian Sterkowicz (guitar) and Steve Rushton (drums). They use and borrow elements from many styles and combine them together through improvisation. This ethic extends to live performances, but familiarity with each others playing and certain repeated elements tends to produce a sense of structure that sounds rehearsed rather than improvised. Small deviations from the beat are used as a spring board for developing melody, which will then sometimes spiral into something pretty wild and off-kilter.

Polish guitarist Sebastian Sterkowicz, formerly with "Head in a Bottle Says Who's Stupid" - it sounds better in Polish... well, probably ...claims Jim Black as an influence. Drummer Steve Rushton, on the other hand cites Ringo Starr. Steve comes from Liverpool so what could we expect. Well - it's the Wirral really but who's going to quibble? Noel Taylor is from the North East of England, well Newcastle to be precise - well not even there - Heddon-on-the-Wall - famous for its wall, as well as Foot and Mouth Disease. Noel likes to imagine that his clarinet playing is an unlikely fusion of late Jimmy Guiffre and Captain Beefheart. Well we can all dream. All three like to improvise.

Their combination results in a slightly spare and spikey style that sometimes flies off in completely unexpected directions, careening unsteadily between genres, and just a little tipsy on the impulse of the moment.