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Polar Bear - Held On The Tips Of Fingers (2005)

Posted By: v3122

Date: 8 Mar 2013 21:57:58

Polar Bear - Held On The Tips Of Fingers (2005)
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Rub Recordings, RRCDLP 05

The second album from Sebastian Rochford's group of young London anarcho-punk-groove-electronica-free improv upsetters is an even more thrilling and momentous affair than its predecessor, last year's highly acclaimed Dim Lit. It's the most radical, invigorating and heartening Britjazz album to be released so far this year and, even though it is still only March, it's certain to be close to the top of many end-of-year Best Albums lists in nine months time.

It is, perhaps, the sound of the future—one of them anyway—and boy, does it work. Basically uncategorisable, Polar Bear reflects the mega-eclectic, post-modern listening tastes of Rochford (who wrote all the tunes) and his colleagues, moving with equal enthusiasm through Bjork and Beethoven, Pig Destroyer, Coltrane and his tenor legacy, Monk, Stockhausen and the ghost of Rip Rig & Panic. With some of Kurt Weill's crudely syncopated, rough edged, fairground-meets-cabaret pit band arranging aesthetic thrown in for good measure.

It is jazz all right, 100% and no mistake, but with bongfuls of left-field electronica and mutant, rocked-up and pfunkified groove spicing the free-improv centred mix. There's not a lot of concern with harmonic development—hey, the band is led by a drummer, and apart from Jonny Phillips's guest guitar on "Beartown" there are no chord instruments—but for aberrant and off-centre rhythmic and melodic development you've hit the muthalode.

Most excitingly perhaps, Polar Bear has reclaimed the in-the-moment, radical, "out" attitude that jazz pretty much invented, back in the day, and then has progressively lost, at least in some strands, as it has become an increasingly repertory-bound, cautious, and conservative music. Held On The Tips Of Fingers by contrast explodes with passion and exuberance, a hunger for risk and adventure, and full-on and revelling-in-it spontaneity.

With Polar Bear, Rochford—who with Pete Wareham and Tom Herbert also appears in that other great London zeitgeist band, Acoustic Ladyland—says: "My main aim is to make music that sounds new and has feeling." Polar Bear has done both things, and shown the way to a brighter future at the same time. The winner of an AAJ Stone Delight Award for joyful outness from start to finish.

Track Listing: Was Dreaming You Called You Disappeared I Slept; Beartown; Fluffy (I Want You); To Touch The Red Brick; Held On The Tips Of Fingers; Argumentative; The King Of Aberdeen; Your Eyes The Sea; Life That Ends Too Soon.

Personnel: Mark Lockheart, tenor saxophone; Pete Wareham, tenor saxophone; Tom Herbert, double bass; Sebastian Rochford, drums; Leafcutter John, electronics. Jonny Phillips, guitar on "Beartown;" Joe Bentley, trombone on "Beartown;" Emma Smith, violin on "Beartown;" Ingrid Laubrock, tenor saxophone on "Fluffy (I Want You)" and "Life That Ends Too Soon;" Hannah Marshall, cello on "Fluffy (I Want You)."

By CHRIS MAY

Polar Bear - Held On The Tips Of Fingers (2005)

Polar Bear Biography

Not to be confused with the American alternative rock outfit of the same name, Polar Bear are a British experimental post-jazz five-piece influenced by the likes of Beethoven, Stevie Wonder, and Bjork. Formed in London in 2004 by drummer Seb Rochford, previously an early member of Babyshambles, saxophonists Pete Wareham and Mark Lockheart, double bassist Tom Herbert, and electronic musician Leafcutter John, the band first attracted attention with its 2004 debut album, Dim Lit, whose eclectic fusion of avant jazz, folk, electronica, and punk earned them a nomination for Best Band at the BBC Jazz Awards. A year later, they received their highest-profile accolade to date, when their sophomore effort, Held on the Tips of Fingers, was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize award. After headlining Noel Fielding's Mighty Boosh Festival in 2008, they released their self-titled third album, and followed it up two years later with Peepers. The band is part of the F-IRE Collective, a jazz music community that also serves as a record label, while all members perform in various other groups including Acoustic Ladyland, the Invisible, and Room of Katinas.

by Jon O'Brien

Музыку лондонского квинтета Polar Bear называют «авант-джазом» и «пост-джазом», однако, столь мудреная терминология отнюдь не означает, что за вывеской Polar Bear скрывается нечто труднодоступное и элитарное. Наоборот, Polar Bear, возможно, -единственный шанс джаза вернуться к массовой публике, достучаться до аудитории, которая давно списала эту музыку с корабля современности.
Автор музыки Polar Bear - барабанщик Себастьян Рошфор, один из самых талантливых и обсуждаемых молодых джазменов Англии последних лет. Его персонально и группу в целом неоднократно номинировали на престижную награду «BBC Jazz Awards Rising Star». Себастьян Рошфор ищет новые источники энергии для джаза в смежных областях – авангарде, электронной музыке и современном роке. После релиза первого альбома Polar Bear «Dim Lit» (2004) пресса отмечала, что такую музыку мог сочинить только тот, кто хорошо знаком не только с Орнеттом Коулменом и Джоном Колтрейном, но и с Medeski Martin And Wood, Jaga Jazzist, Cinematic Orchestra и Radiohead.
В 2005 году к квартету, состоявшему из барабанщика Рошфора, тенор-саксофонистов Марка Локхарта и Пита Уорхэма и контрабасиста Тома Херберта, присоединился компьютерный кудесник Джон Бертон, выступающий под псевдонимом Leafcutter John. Это пополнение в составе группы решило ее судьбу. Записанный в новом составе альбом «Held On The Tips Of Fingers» был сразу номинирован на престижную награду «Mercury Music Prize». Впервые за ее историю в числе номинантов появилась чисто инструментальная группа. Диск «Held On The Tips Of Fingers» - один из самых ярких джазовых альбомов современности. Этот словно сорвавшийся с цепи боп вполне легко представить себе в фильмах Эмира Кустурицы или Леонида Гайдая, здесь полно запоминающихся мелодий, а наблюдать за трюками Лифкаттера Джона не менее интересно, чем следить за мыслью солирующих саксофонистов.

Polar Bear - Held On The Tips Of Fingers (2005):

Tracklist:

1. Was Dreaming You Called You Dissapeared I Slept
2. Beartown
3. Fluffy (I Want You)
4. To Touch the Red Brick
5. Held on the Tips of Fingers
6. Argumentative
7. The King of Aberdeen
8. Your Eyes the Sea
9. Life That Ends Too Soon

Musicians:

Mark Lockheart - Tenor sax
Pete Wareham - Tenor sax
Tom Herbert - Double Bass
Leafcutter John - electronic
Sebastian Rochford - drums

Guest musicians
Jonny Philips - Guitar
Ingrid Laubrook - Sax
Joe Bentley - Trombone
Emma Smith - Violin
Hannah Marshall - Cello

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