Motor Ghost

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Tue 18 September 2007 // 20:00 / Cinema

Motor Ghost is the riotously unbounded union of Alex Neilson and Ben Reynolds, both ever more vital figures in the UK's flourishing and genre-defying free music underground.

Both have ever blooming discographies and lists of collaborations, Neilson perhaps most known for his work with Jandek and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, and more recently his endeavours under the Tight Meat and Directing Hand umbrellas, with Ben making waves with his solo releases and work as part of Ashtray Navigations. Both veer from primitive folk to skronk jazz to psych rock, often all in the same breath. Neilson's approach to free drumming is like that of a more Anglicised Corsano, and live they'll be inflammatory.
Fittingly, we also have stalwart of the UK free jazz scene, star of our recent Free Noise tour and purveyor of the classic English free jazz drum sound Paul Hession, in his Anglo/Deutsch collaboration with saxophonist Hans Peter Hiby. As the Guinness Encyclopaedia of Popular Music says: "Hession has torrential polyrhythmic style and his ability to raise the stakes in formidable company establish him as a prime mover in the attempt to inject excitement and power back into total improvisation". Hession's collaborated with everyone from Brotzmann to Bailey to Evan Parker to Squarepusher, and you can expect this duo with Hiby to be at least as explosive as any of those meetings. Why else do you think their 'The Real Case' album is being re-issued by the Atavistic Unheard Music series?