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...Junius Paul, a funky, deep-toned foundation on bass guitar, was joined by trumpeter Marquis Hill and the amazing guitarist Matt Gold....
...“It’s important for the Proms not to be a museum,” says Matt Rogers, who was commissioned to compose the show’s opening piece....
...He’s clearly intrigued, though, as later the guitarist strums through his favourite song in the world — an Italian aria, obviously. Part of Last Days’ abstraction derives from its source....
...But pianist Myra Melford twins tradition with abstraction and double bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Matt Wilson’s aesthetics are equally wide....
...On “In Between Dreams” a succession of dreamscapes was set up by bassist Casimir alternating bendy riffs with atonal strums. These changes of mood were developed as each piece progressed....
...Here, though, the sounds were generated by Matt Mitchell and Craig Taborn’s piano and synths and Ben Monder’s synthesised guitar....
...The performers do their bits and then retire to the edges of the unevenly planked stage, occasionally to strum or blow on an instrument....
...Stephens joined in with three simple strums, thickened each chord and let the rhythm ride, anchored firmly by Kris Funn’s punchy double bass....
...Westerhaus, pedal and laptop at the ready, bounded and bent to transmute basic strums and masked riffs into haunting whines, violent beeps and industrial grinds – at one point he stabbed his amp with his...
...Here, producers Lee Townsend and Tucker Martine put his sparse, downbeat jams with drummer Matt Chamberlain through the mill....
...Jazz proved to be less dependent on electricity, and the ethereal strum of un-amplified harp signalled the start of two sets of fully acoustic jazz....
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