Solid freebop thankfully edgy enough not to fake the feeling of freedom from saxist Ronan Perrett with double bassist Huw V Williams and drummer Jay Davis - Cornishman Perrett is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Music from which he graduated in 2015, going on to tour Twospeak whose albums include Reflector.
Their barnstorming Fictions like the earlier Twospeak release found Mike De Souza also on Fresh Sound New Talent as a named act at the heart of the sound.
Perrett trio album Who Owns the Sky (2022) had a different line-up and yet compares most with Between. But no one can compare both exactly as that earlier work featured a very different bassist in Ferg Ireland whose Stay Broke we preferred in 2021 and likewise stylistically divergent drummer in James Maddren, tasty recently on The Betrayal with pride of Norwich Kit Downes and the maverick bassist formerly of Django Bates' Belovèd, Petter Eldh. Tone don Welshman Williams here on Between is well worth hearing on 2021's Llonyddiaeth and with Davis on the aforementioned De Souza succès d'estime, Chrysalis. Best passages in these betweenies contains the wailing bluesfulness that we kind of crave that bit more of overall but baked in thoroughly enough on the temperature controlled 'Following You Down.' Finally, it perhaps goes without saying that we always appreciate an album title that can be both a preposition and an adverb. And fittingly the syntactic 3 stimulate and fire the synapses if you listen to any of these tracks in any order. Ronan Perrett, photo: via FSNT
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