THE AMES ROOM - debut LP 'IN' - MonotypeRec

[antboy]

Hi All !
I am very proud and happy to announce the release of THE AMES ROOM debut LP 'In'.
Released on MonotypeRec.
Info below:

THE AMES ROOM
'In'
LP: Monotype Records, monoLP003
www.monotyperecords.com/en/monolp003.html

A1 Niort (21:20)
B1 Poznan (20:48)

Sleeve design - Tomek Mirt
33 RPM, black vinyl, 140g
12" LP limited to 500 copies

THE AMES ROOM
Jean-Luc Guionnet - alto saxophone
Will Guthrie - drums
Clayton Thomas - double bass

virb.com/theamesroom

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The three members of THE AMES ROOM are involved in a multitude of musical activities: free improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, jazz, installations, noise, rock, however all three share a passion for free jazz at it's most energetic and brutal heights. The music rests somewhere between Roscoe Mitchell's Noonah, Last Exit's tribal adventures, and Henry Threadgill's spider web like tapestries of sound. Between them the three members have worked/work with the likes of Peter Brötzmann, Tobias Delius, Jim Denley, Robin Fox, Chris Abrahams, Axel Dorner, Johannes Bauer, Mattin, Paul Lovens, Peter Jacquemyn, Burkhard Beins, Keith Rowe, Jerome Noetinger, Thomas Ankersmit, Andy Moor, Tony Buck, Eric La Casa, Eric Cordier , Edward Perraud, Philipp Samartzis , Marc Baron ...

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Preorder Prices:
(up to March 28, 2010)

Europe 19 EUR
North America/Japan 23 USD

Regular price:
(from March 29, 2010 on)

Europe 21 EUR
North America/Japan 26 USD

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[antboy]

First reveiw:

'Now, here's a pleasant surprise! A raging, unabashedly free jazz trio that works. Jean-Luc Guionnet (he of the excellent organ disc, "Non-Organic Bias") on alto, Clayton Thomas on bass and Will Guthrie on drums. Two non-stop live onslaughts of intense jazz-based improv that manages to avoid almost all the self-indulgence and gabbiness of the huge majority of such attempts in recent decades. How? I'm not sure, though Guthrie's amazingly solid and imaginatively propulsive drumming certainly helps and Guionnet, for his part, somehow manages, though he virtually never takes horn from mouth and is generally in screaming mode, not to place himself at the center of attention. One automatically thinks of comparisons; somewhere between Lyons/Sirone/Cyrille and Mitchell/Favors/Moye? These sets have all the great energy that those trios may have had in the 70s. Even so, is it an open question as to the viability of such an approach in 2010? Most assuredly, but The Ames Room makes a strong case. btw, I'd forgotten the association until I looked it up, though I'd seen it many a time, but the original "Ames Room" is that 3D optical illusion. Hard to define, but I like that allusion vis a vis this trio's relationship to classic free jazz. Check it out, in any case, especially you die-hard jazz fans...'
Brian Olewnick
olewnick.blogspot.com/