Disembark! is more of a work in progress, a conversation that is still needing a continuation when the album has ended or extended into another group setting. Dee Byrne on alto sax and Cath Roberts on baritone sax are two of the most dynamic new breed of UK free improvisers to have emerged over the past decade and have worked together extensively in recent years. This mature and convincing album of their duo play together is quite adventurous and amounts to very abstract music, the style falling I suppose, no matter what the method of composition method, in a free-improv sound space and the collaboration itches away tune by tune in a restless, searching spirit. I came away from the record wanting the project however to have a bigger context. Perhaps a duo in itself is not enough in terms of variety although there is no getting away from the impressive rapport the two players project especially on the more throughtful tracks 'Vent' and 'It's Hard to Explain.'
Out as a digital album on the Luminous label.
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