with Steve Noble and John Edwards, as well as his own band Predicate), at times putting the clarinet through a dangerously overdriven amplifier to match the electric tumult of his colleagues. While in the past Ward’s clarinet playing may have been primarily associated with the free-chamber intricacy of his work with such musicians as Derek Bailey, Simon Fell and Joe Morris, here he pushes the instrument into areas more typical of his guitar playing (as heard in the acclaimed trio N.E.W. While some immediate reference points for Forebrace’s music might be the raging electric violence of Last Exit, the dense contrapuntal babble of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time ensembles, or even the pummelling immersiveness of Swans, “Steeped” also ventures into more abstract and unclassifiable realms drawing on the extended sonic vocabularies of all four musicians, and in particular Sassi and Horro’s astute and disorientating deployment of a wide range of electronic treatments. Full-throttle ensemble interaction, evocative atmospherics and paranoiac funk co-exist side by side over the album’s 45-minute length, in which compositions by Ward and collective improvisations flow together in a continuous torrent. By contrast with their 2013 debut album “Bad Folds” (which was constructed by Alex from a range of material recorded over the course of two intense studio days), “Steeped” captures the group in the heat of live performance.
“Steeped” is the second album by FOREBRACE, a quartet led by Alex Ward and featuring Roberto Sassi (Vole, Cardosanto, Snorkel), Santiago Horro (Nøught, Luke Barlow Band), and Jem Doulton (Dead Days Beyond Help, Mr.
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“a monster of a group that embraces hard hitting predecessors like Last Exit and the textures of early fusion in an avant-garde metal approach.” – Paul Acquaro, The Free Jazz Blog. Catalogue ref.: Relative Pitch Records RPR1052 Release date: September 30th 2016.
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