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Review of 30.03.2018 by Mike Collins
“There’s endless invention, fun and nuance amongst the riffs and electronic ambience and they are a great live act. The world should see more of Michelson Morley.” https://jazzyblogman.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/michelson-morley-bebop-club-friday-30th-march/
LondonJazzNews Review of Strange Courage
“If there were a prize for forming bands with instantly distinctive sounds, Bristol-based saxophonist Jake McMurchie would surely carry it off. As a key driving force behind the award-winning quartet Get The Blessing, McMurchie has moved from bass-groove to live-wire industrial loopy without dropping …
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Strange Courage featured in Bandcamp “Summer in Jazz”
Very pleased to be included in this list: Bandcamp Daily – The Summer in Jazz Releases
A trio of reviews of our Bristol launch…
“If the album is an assured, gripping group performance, the live show is an even more pulsating ride… The two sets were a celebration of some of the more creative and imaginative music that has been brewing gently in Bristol over …
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4 star review in Jazzwise magazine
“Michelson Morley’s spacious, menacing avant jazztronica … With Michelson Morley, jazz in the age of the electroacoustic loop is in safe hands.” **** Selwyn Harris, Jazzwise magazine, July 2016 Read in full
4 star review of Strange Courage in The Guardian
**** “It’s really imaginative contemporary music, with a hot free-jazz core” John Fordham, The Guardian, 17.06.2016
Glowing review of Strange Courage on Listomania
“Broadening the language is a long tradition in jazz, from its inception as an amalgam of cultures, through explorations of players increasing aural and harmonic scopes of their instruments, to current attempts to integrate acoustic improvisational playing into the digital …
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Tamer as Prey played on Late Junction, Radio 3
“They’ve lost none of the inventiveness they displayed on their first album and to me they still sound really unique” NIck Luscombe, Late Junction, 27.04.2016 Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07869d3#play
**** Vortex review from Marlbank
“Gravitational waves greet Michelson Morley playing live as they return two years on from Aether Drift, a quartet that thrives on open improvisation contoured by effects triggered by leader/composer Jake McMurchie and drummer Mark Whitlam … “Tamer as Prey”, like …
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Review of our performance at London Jazz Festival 2015
“I’d been waiting a long time to see Michelson Morley play live and I’m pleased to report that they didn’t disappoint with this involving and often exciting set. The band’s second album, this time with the excellent Messore on board, …
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4 star review in BBC Classical Music Magazine
Our superb drummer Mark Whitlam spotted this review we’d missed a 4 star review in BBC Classical Music Magazine Eerie, menacing, furtive and wistful, Michelson Morley creates a sense of compelling unease. Read the review in full here: http://www.classical-music.com/review/michelson-morley-aether-drift
What people have said about Michelson Morley
“It’s like being run down by a rubber fire engine, piloted by the lovechild of Jan Garbarek and Roger Waters. With Roland Kirk clanging the bell.” Steve Kibble, friend of Marsden Jazz Festival Paul Bream, Schmazz/Jazz North East “When I started …
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Review of Future Inns gig
The audience was spaced out around the room and the band was spread across the stage, each performer in their own small island of electronics. The music, with its open and uncluttered process of ambience, reflected this spaciousness, creating a …
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4 star review from the Jazz Mann
Very complimentary review from Ian Mann the Jazz Mann in his online blog, giving Aether Drift 4 stars: “Strong melodies, inventive rhythms and grooves, plus imaginative use of electronics adds up to a winning formula that is thoroughly convincing” Read …
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4 stars in Jazzwise and a great review in London Jazz News
This month’s Jazzwise Magazine reviews the album and has given it 4 stars! “… the sparse textures and nu-groove-with-loops aspects link to post-rock aesthetic as much as they do contemporary UK jazz. But it’s more than good enough to get the …
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Guardian review of Aether Drift
“liberating flexibilities of time and space certainly characterise McMurchie’s fine first album as a composer/leader … The compositions are imaginative and the collective creativity gives the set an unapologetically jazz-rooted feel” http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/01/michelson-morley-aether-drift-review
First review of Aether Drift gives 4 stars
“The album successfully bridges a bluesy freebop acoustic jazz sensibility and futurejazz electronica… A fine debut.” Marlbank **** Read in full