Mopomoso 2013 UK tour recordings – ‘Making Rooms’
on Weekertoft
First release
Weekertoft’s first release is ‘Making Rooms‘: a 4-disc document, individually sleeved, with a 20-page booklet of accompanying text and photographs.
It features stunning music from the trio of Evan Parker, John Russell & John Edwards, Pat Thomas solo, the trio of Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor & David Leahy, and duo of Kay Grant & Alex Ward.
All the music is of live recordings taken from the triumphant UK tour of 2013 to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Mopomoso and its contribution to the promotion of freely improvised music.
‘Making Rooms‘ is available for £30 plus shipping from weekertoft.bandcamp.com
New Label
Weekertoft is a new label for improvised music founded by the English guitarist John Russell & Irish pianist Paul G. Smyth. “It is our wish to present documentation of improvised music that maintains a high level of quality both in production terms and in musical values. We want people to share with us the adventures and delights to be found in this vibrant area of music making and that is why we have created an ‘earfarm’ to cultivate it.”
WEEKER n. Ear. “Ain’t young Francis got great big weekers.” – Ashford and district. (see also Arkies) The Dialect of Kent (c1950)
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TOFT tof-t n. A messuage; a dwelling-house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriate to the use of the household; a piece of ground on which the messuage formerly stood. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (1888)