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4Walls
12+ albums
12jazzAvant-ProgexperimentalJuma
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Luc Ex - acoustic bass guitar Phil Minton - vocals Michael Vatcher - drums Veryan Weston - piano The music of 4Walls is not very easy to define. The beauty and musical tension seem to be evoked out of the very logical combination of tightly rehearsed pieces and free improvisation. 4Walls create their own intriguing world of noises and melodies, and at the same time they very well manage to balance between the different dynamic musical possibilities. You may hear beautiful, more melancholic or dark chords against fast and humorous pieces. Very tiny minuscule sounds against enormous fragments of brutal noise and energy. This is what happens if you have noisy music and avant-garde jazz sitting around one table. The origin of this band had combined two concepts - 'ROOF' (Tom Cora, Phil Minton, Michael Vatcher, Luc Ex) and 'WAYS' (Phil Minton & Veryan Weston). The first had the late Tom Cora on Cello and still includes some of his fine compositions. Added, is Veryan Weston on piano who is half of the 'WAYS' duo with Phil Minton - a long term acclaimed collaboration which has yielded numerous compositional projects. 4Walls now has a repertoire of material that not only combines these various previous elements, but new material has been collaboratively conceived with the use of words of the poets Paul Haines, e.e. cummings and other writers/thinkers as Ho Chi minh, Confucius, Lenny Bruce, etc. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additio
