JAC BERROCAL, DAVID FENECH & VINCENT EPPLAY – Antigravity – CD – BLACKESTCD011

Berrocal, a horn player born in 1946, was member of the ’70s Paris improv scene. He’s collaborated with the likes of Nurse With Wound, James Chance, Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, Lol Coxhill, Telectu and Pascal Comelade. He remains active as a collaborator and released a solo album titled MDLV last year. The d’Avantage label boss is perhaps best known for the “Rock ‘n Roll Station,” a mix of deadpan, absurdist poetry and Musique Concrète. The new trio turns in a new version of the song on Antigravity. Blackest Ever Black says Antigravity is “a lugubrious mise-en-scene in which ice-cold outlaw jazz meets musique concrete, DIY whimsy and dubwise studio science, all watched over by the lost souls and hungry ghosts of rock ‘n roll.” Berrocal worked with Antigravity bandmate David Fenech as part of another trio in 2011, and Feneche has been active in various underground scenes since the ’90s, having worked with Rhys Chatham and James Plotkin. Vincent Epplay is a visual and sound artist focusing on aleatory, or chance, composition.

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