To celebrate Easter....we thought it would be good to post this....please please enjoy!
Sounds Like
A Heavy take on the Classic Bone - Guitar - Drums trio format that was popularised by Hal Crook in the 90's the lack of bass enabling the band to get on well together as a unit not having to spend so much time propping up the bassists ego allowing the trio members to focus solely on the uplifting nature of life lived through the conduit of music written with the intent to cross over into areas where other improvising groups have resided for various lengths of time but not fully developed into the crushing consuming NEWT sound.
Newt found its roots in the summer Festival environment of Edinburgh 2006. As artists of all kinds rubbished the beautiful old city in posters the trio worked away in clammy basement surrounds. The music that formed from those below-ground sessions became the intense, aggressive & sometimes forlorn sound of Newt. It is Scottish in its darkness, international with its influences & universal in its appeal.
The 3 members of Newt all contribute to the sound via compositions, criticism and spontaneous creation. Chris Greive is currently performing & recording with a variety of groups including Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Haftor Medboe Group & Salsa Celtica. Leading his own groups (trio, quartet & sextet) Graeme Stephen has recorded with New York Bassist Eivind Opsvik & drummer Stuart Ritchie (funded by SAC) & recently won the Jazz Services Promoters Choice Award with his quartet. Chris Wallace performs frequently with Paul Harrison, hip-hop/jazz fore runners Livesciences & vocalists such as Claire Daly, Todd Gordon & Sara Mitra while also having time to travel to New York (funded by SAC) where he studied with world famous instructor & clinician Dom Famularo.
Hello Newtered, i do indeed have caffeine lats, in fact im pumping them in this very moment (what are caffeine lats?). I appreciate your attempt to be warm blooded, i miss you guys to and hope to hear some NU-Muzik soon. by the way who is the hooligan in your pic? Pace
Our beloved colleagues! Thank you for your friendship! Listen and watch us on our page and enjoy! Feel free to post comments including HTML. We are looking for a manager who will help us to participate in major Jazz Festivals and/or book concert tours overseas.
our new album
MASISAMBA
is now available on iTUNES
Sincerely, Armen Martirosian artistic director AJB
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Ooh you have even made your page look like a newt, although, like the album cover, I can detect this is not an actual newt but merely a representation of one. Aha.
Hi there folks. If you're about on tues 29th Jan, The Mike Kearney Band plays the Jazz Bar. If you can spare the £3 in it should be a great night with live music from 9 till 3. As a wee taster you can come to my space and check out some of the new tunes. Cheers and a happy new year. Mike x
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