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Dave Kane and Alex Bonney Interview

Wednesday, 08 April 2009 13:01

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Abstract trills punctuated by staccato punches over arrhythmic percussive effects segue coherently into elegant Bartok-esque melodic phrases contextualised by luscious layers of harmonic texture.

“It doesn’t really have a name,” said trumpeter Alex Bonney in reference to his new album, with double bassist, Dave Kane. However, it could so easily have been said of the music the duo conjures. Recorded during their tour with the Ken Vandermark trio late last year, it was officially launched following their Loop Collective Festival performance on the Mini-Loop label. That these two groups had such a prominent role in the fruition of this album indicates their creative and practical impact on the project.

The experience of touring with U.S. heavyweight saxophonist, Ken Vandermark, evidently channelled the pair’s creative energy. Inevitable perhaps, given the persona surrounding this free jazz innovator, “(Ken Vandermark) is a really, really serious guy actually, he’s kind of very, very into what he’s doing and he’s kind of militant about his approach,” said Kane candidly.

The challenge in this experience lay not only in reproducing high quality musical performances over a sequence of consecutive nights but also in reinventing their material, as Kane illustrated, “we would be driving to the gig and we would be realising that we’ve got to just play for forty minutes, you know, totally free and then it got to the fourth or fifth gig and then we’re kind of thinking, where’s it going to come from?” Bonney agreed, “It was quite unusual for both of us to do. It was four nights wasn’t it?

They were back to back and it was the first time I had done anything like that which was that close together and it was a challenge because we were playing in front of those guys. Every night they were in the audience and we were thinking we can’t just do the same thing again, they’re going to know.”

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