Album: Clear Frame, Clear Frame (Continuity)
The IndependentSign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy This first release on Charles Hayward’s Continuity label finds the former This Heat drummer involved in a series of absorbing improvisations with a select crew of free-jazz stylists: Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper, veteran sax eccentric Lol Coxhill, young vibes/steel pans innovator Orphy Robinson, and national treasure Robert Wyatt on cornet. The unhurried, reflective opener “Clean Slate” is typical, with rippling eddies of Robinson’s steel pans and Coxhill’s soprano sax riding the undulating rhythms. Wyatt’s asthmatic cornet pairs well with Coxhill’s wheezing sax on “Tin Plate”, while elsewhere, Robinson’s vibes and Hayward’s percussion on the excellent “Better Late” recall Stomu Yamash’ta’s early-Seventies recordings.
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