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MP3 Kevin Flanagan quartet - Riprap
9 MP3 Songs in this album (49:22) !
Related styles: Jazz: Contemporary Jazz, Spoken Word: Poetry, Type: Improvisational
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The group was formed 5 years by a group of musicians and writers who were interested in exploring possible combinations of music, text and improvisation, with the freedom that typified the early period of the original Beats. This has now become a collective of musicians, such as Kevin Flanagan, Dave Gordon, Andrew Brown, Russ Morgan, and the digital performer and composer Tom Hall.
On the poets’ side of things, it was originally Malcolm Guite, but has now expanded to include possible collaborations and performances with Gwyneth Lewis, Micheal O''Siadhail and Ruth Padel among others. The Riprap Quartet has performed in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall for National Poetry Day, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, Essex University, Anglia Ruskin University, Boxford Jazz Club, Brighton Jazz Club, and been broadcast by the BBC World Service. They have also just released a first CD which features compositions by the band setting the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder.
“It was once commonplace for there to be an exchange of ideas between poets and musicians; text didn’t always need to be subsumed into song lyrics. The rhythmic implications of each genre would coexist, clash and augment the performance event. Moreover, this exchange was a porous borderland in which the disciplines came away animated by the other. The structures of each serve to constantly push the other to show something anew. The individual poets step carefully across the intersections of deep grooves, skirting an abyss that evaporates with a cadence; movies with subtitles for your ears. We are those guys.”
"The Riprap collective can take you back and forth across the porous borderland between music and poetry, contemporary poets inspiring new grooves whilst the music give the poets back their voice with a clean new music in it. Listening to Riprap is to discover that things are more than they are, and they give more than they have."
"Haunting and atmospheric settings of Gary Snyder''s evocative poetry from sax player/composer Kevin Flanagan''s new band. Acoustic jazz of the highest order where the musicians solo beautifully and sit in grooves like they''ve found a new place to live." Sue Edwards, Royal Festival Hall.
“Buddhist beat poetry; burning neo-groove jams led by legendary American saxophonist; free jazz that makes sense; Cambridge intellectuals play the blues; taking the rip out of rap; ...shall I go on?” Dave Gordon
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