The real knack here is to sound flat - fear not alto sax rising star Ronan Perrett's lead line isn't lying low as in a pancake at all - because that fingering skill needed given the prevailing significance of the Huw V. bass line which guides it every lower and the desire surely to create as plangent a tonality as far below you can go and as weightless a feel as is achievable against a contrarily spicey basically rock backbeat, the clue fellow Internet sleuths is in the tune title. Huh - how do they do that? This is the best from Cornish player Perrett's Between (Fresh Sound New Talent, just released) an album that contains the wailing bluesfulness you kind of crave but rarely stumble upon. The syntactic 3 stimulate and fire up the synapses with considerable gusto and grace given their sound grammar. If searching for something good to play after listening to this it's gotta to be something of the calibre of Ornette Coleman's 'When Will the Blues Leave?' followed by some choice Steve Lehman quintet material to bring things more up to date - we'd suggest 'On Meaning'. Ronan Perrett, photo: press
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