Reviews - Spitz 21/3/06
Chaney’s excellent, unpredictable vocal lies somewhere between Sandy Denny and Norma Winstone, and she improvises incredibly effectively considering the music’s ambiguous harmonies and shifting textures. Brian Eno has spoken of his approach as being like painting in sound and this will be something Riley will have much empathy with. So it was no accident that Howie Bailey’s watery projected images, which can on other occasions seem an unnecessary diversion, tonight dovetailed naturally with Moov’s music. Although Riley usually operates in the classical oeuvre, Moov comes closer to a kind of post-rock/electronica songs-based music. If the album release on Riley’s label, scheduled for release later this year is anything like tonight’s performance we’re in for a real treat.
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Selwyn Harris (Jazzwize)
The Spitz, Old Spitalfields Market, London, March 21, 2006