solo, by Steve Noble

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Solo Improvisation 40:41

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"The musician perfectly controls his actions, makes the whole an intricately built dramatic structure. He takes care of the details, goes down to the level of a single sound, without ceasing to be an explosive one man orchestra." - Spontaneous Music Tribune

"subterranean creaks and groans rise from below, the unnerving deep of the Underground, rails creaking, a slow emergence into the light, punctuated by snare cracks like rifle shots that surprise you with their force." - Frequency Magazine

"Steve clearly has something to say and show" - Jazzist

"A true beauty, this one." - Vital Weekly

"Here Steve Noble manages to make his instruments speak with as much conviction, strength and coherence creating a unique sound happening that strikes the imagination once and for all and inscribes magical signs in the night. We perceive them as an explorer would discover them by torchlight in a cave buried in the bowels of the earth for an eternity. The sounds of another civilization, those of a utopian way of life, necessary and unhoped-for. A refuge in the darkness of the world. This is HUGE!" - orynx-improvandsounds

".......his new solo album really blew me away .

Noble is part of a group of British free-jazz musicians (I call them that for want of a better term, but they just push the boundaries of the music) who mix adventure with humor, which gives you as a listener with extra pleasure. is listening to their sublime explorations of the musical universe.

Solo is an improvisation that lasts over forty minutes, on the snare drum, cymbals and percussion, and I dare say that you have never heard a percussion solo like this before. Very occasionally (listen to the fourth fragment that I will show you here) he comes a little closer to a normal drum solo, but even then it is all slightly different and more exciting.

For almost three quarters of an hour Noble manages to keep you as a listener captive with sometimes whispering soft percussion, alternated with rumbling thunder - all the possibilities of the percussion instruments he has at hand are exploited to the utmost, taking you from one surprise to the next falls. Less is more certainly applies here, because it is nothing short of astonishing how much wealth can be extracted from so little material. Chapeau!" - Moors Magazine

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released June 21, 2021

Steve Noble - snare drum, cymbals and percussion

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Recorded at Hundred Years Gallery on 6th December 2020

Recorded by Graham MacKeachan
Mixed and Mastered by Martin Clarke

All music by Steve Noble
Artwork 'A Landscape of Sound' by Beverley Waller
Design and Production by Daniel Thompson for Empty Birdcage Records

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