| "Another step on the way toward Arthurs becoming a major figure."(John Fordham, The Guardian February 2006)
Tom Arthurs – Trumpet & Flugelhorn, Bruce McKinnon – Piano, Joe Sorbara – Drums & Percussion
Music by Arthurs, Sorbara, Mckinnon and Brahms
Squash Recipe brings together the acclaimed British trumpeter Tom Arthurs with Canadian musicians Bruce McKinnon (piano) and Joe Sorbara (drums and percussion). It is the result of a friendship and musical relationship between the three players that began in 2001 in the cultural hotbed of the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada .The trio is shaped by common interests in multi-faceted approaches to music-making, and their recent work together has culminated in an album of intensely playful and engaging music.
Squash Recipe was recorded in Toronto ; it includes eight original compositions by the three members of the band, as well as their arrangement of Brahms' Exercise #15. Strong, mind-bending compositions are purposefully dissected and re-assembled through sensitive improvisation, on a sonic journey that incorporates extended instrumental techniques and unexpected timbral combinations. The influences of the group are too many to mention here, ranging from Steve Coleman through Erik Satie to the Marx Brothers, and from Paul Klee to Autechre via John Zorn.
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