9pm-9.45pm: MJ12
10pm-10.45pm: Time Trout
MJ12
Percy Jones – Bass
Chris Bacas – Sax
David Phelps – Guitar
Stephen Moses – Drums
Time Trout
Viv Corringham – Vox
Marcus Mummins – Sax
Dave Mandl – Bass
Stephen Moses – Drums
Percy Jones and MJ12 JazzRock !!
Time Trout is drummer Stephen Moses and bass guitarist Dave Mandl create a series of hypnotic locked grooves, that simultaneously draw you in and subtly pull the rug out from underneath you all at once; like repeatedly stumbling down the last couple of steps to the dance floor. Over this hypnotic ouroboros of a rhythm section, Marcus Cummins’ saxophone deftly feints and weaves between the cracks, running the gamut from tentative, staccato stabs to giddily whirling lyricism.
The three instrumentalists constantly trade emphases in such an assured way that you quickly stop trying to focus in on one part and give yourself over to the single, intricate whole; running through which, like a bright red thread through the labyrinth, is Viv Corringham’s astonishing spoken word vocal performance. A restless stream of consciousness that seems to have the primal urgency of a message delivered in a dream, Corringham mixes Delphic abstractions with bracingly lucid implorations, the whole performance delivered with such seamlessness that it’s hard to tell whether the lyrics are channeling the music or vice versa. The answer, of course, is both.
