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FBB/Zingaro FCD 001
FBB/Zingaro FCD 002
FBB/Live FCD 003

1. Grate : 10' 37"
2. Gaze : 6':30
3. Dance Piece : 3':07
4. The Strings Have It : 3':44
5. The Null Effect : 22':47"

Ray Dickaty, tenor/soprano sax
Tim Downey, electric guitar
Ricardo Fernandez, piano
Dave Jackson, alto sax/alto clarinet
Simon Jones, violin
Marion Leibl, voice
Phill Lucking, trumpet/bass trumpet
Andrea Martin, double bass
Phil Morton, accidents and treatments
Neil Murphey, viola
Garfield Southall, electric guitar
Adam Webster, cello
John Whittington, electric guitar
Carlos Zingarro, violin
Matt Hamlet, electric guitar

Recorded Parr Street Studios, Liverpool December 2004.
Mixed and mastered by Ray Dickaty and Richard Walker at Hilly Fields, London 2005 P+ © FRAKTURE 2005

Modern Classical meets Free Music in the meeting of large improvising ensemble Frakture Big Band and violinist Carlos Zingaro

Late 2004 the long established FBB held a series of musical meetings with Portuguese violin maestro Carlos Zingaro which culminated in two very special recordings, a studio album "Funfzehn" and a "Live" album, recorded at the prestigious Cornerstone Festival of Contempory Music December 2004.

These recordings show a full range of influences, from Krautrock to contempory classical and were wholly improvised "live to tape" in real time.

At times conjuring up what could be Stockhausen or the ghost of a long lost Kraut rock classic, the Frakture Big Band easily assimilate found sounds, free improvisation and modern classical composition into a unified whole.

Through sound listening and easy response, riffs, melodies, moods and atmospheres are conjured up that hang in the air and change the space and then are gone, Sometimes intense to the point of no return and then lulling the listener along on an abstract ambient journey the FBB with Zingaro is a successful meeting of many musical minds into a unifying whole.

Through a myriad of differing styles, this large ensemble weaves its magical way; from the spiky "Dance Piece" to the abstract industrialism of "Grate" to what sounds like a lost Krautrock classic "Null effect" moods shift and shimmer as the music unfolds. With occasional lead instruments coming to the fore then rejoining the whole the listener's attention is grabbed and then pulled into an amazing soundworld.

The meeting of Zingaro with the FBB has produced two records of top level improvising that bears repeated listening.

Ray Dickaty.