Reviews - Spitz 21/3/06
The annual iF Festival, of which contemporary composer Colin Riley is co-artistic director, is a series of gigs and events that sets out to explore the range of creative possibilities open to contemporary musicians and performance artists. This year it programmed some ten events in March to mark the festival’s tenth anniversary. You may recall Riley from his impressionistic classical/jazz hybrid Homemade Orchestra that recorded a rather lovely CD co-led by saxophonist Tim Whitehead on Basho in 2004. Riley’s newest band Moov, who performed one of the last gigs of the festival here tonight, also tests the boundaries between different genres, and between improvisation and composition, but there are no jazz solos - or anything that could be easily labelled jazz. Yet, performing in one of the last gigs of the festival, the members of Moov respond to and interact with each other in a way that has much in common with collective improvisation. »more
Selwyn Harris (Jazzwize)
The Spitz, Old Spitalfields Market, London, March 21, 2006