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| New Bruford/Borstlap Release in Two Minds British drummer Bill Bruford has released a podcast highlighting his new release with Dutch keyboard master Michiel Borstlap. In Two Minds has just been released on the Summerfold imprint. Bruford and Borstlap are two of the leading lights in progressive improvised music. Since their first meeting at the Nijmegen Festival in Holland in 2002, the duo have recorded on both CD and DVD, and gone on to play major Festivals and concerts in Japan and Europe. “The feats of coordination that they achieved, and the apparent symmetry of the instant arrangements that they hit upon, were astounding," wrote The London Times of the duo. In Two Minds is the second CD to come from this pairing of fine musicians. Recorded in 2007, the new disc features eleven intimate and conversational tracks of new, original material, and a stand-out reading of the Miles Davis classic 'All Blues'. The Bruford- Borstlap Duo will again be playing selected live dates through Summer 2008. By the tender age of 27, Bill Bruford's musical character had already been forged in the fiery furnace of four of the biggest progressive rock groups of the 1970s; Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, and UK. This early success propelled Bill, by nature a restless innovator uncomfortable with the well-worn path, into a fascinating 30-year search for the innovative, the unusual, and the unpredictable with groups such as Bruford, Earthworks, and the Bruford-Borstlap Duo. Pianist Michiel Borstlap graduated Cum Laude from Hilversum Conservatory in 1992. He has had his music recorded by Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, and has released eight albums, including Every Step a Dance, Every Word A Song, and the DVD In Concert In Holland with Bruford. He may appear one day in a duo improvising instant compositions with Bruford, the next in concert with the Ankara Symphony Orchestra, and a third day behind his Yamaha grand improvising over techno and house beats with the group Soulvation. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Jazz News :: home page |