Name: Meridiem
Brand: Percy Howard / Charles Hayward / Fred Frith / Bill Laswell

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TB6515

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black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Lasgo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0889397106515

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Percy Howard / Charles Hayward / Fred Frith / Bill Laswell

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Tiger Bay

The polymath bassist/producer Bill Laswell has worked with an awesome range of performers active in different genres as part of a quest to perpetually bush the boundaries; on this adventurous set, recorded at his Orange Music studio in New Jersey, Laswell’s irregular bass is joined by the veteran British avant-garde guitarist, Fred Frith, former This Heat drummer Charles Haywood, and former Nûs front-man, Percy Howard, for a shape-shifting excursion that skates the edges of experimental rock and free-form jazz. The excesses of “Frozen” build on crescendos of cascading musical energy as Howard aims his voice ever higher; the strangely-named “Iurodivii” is a slow-jam contrast with intricate guitar picking from Frith, subdued cymbals from Haywood and semi-tone jazz bass from Lasweel. Released in 1998 on the Italian experimental label Materiali Sonori, this first Meridiem experiment was a beautifully challenging beginning to a lasting project with many other tricks up its sleeve, as revealed by the sporadic series of further releases issued during the new millennium.

Meridiem

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