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KAY GRANT’S LATEST NEWS

Making Rooms Box Set – Seven Cities CD

13 Mar 2016

Making Rooms 4-CD Box Set

The 4-CD Box Set ‘Making Rooms’ is now out on new label Weekertoft.  All the music is live, recorded on the 2013 UK tour sponsored by concert series Mopomoso:

  • ‘Chasing The Peripanjandra’ – Evan Parker (sax), John Russell (guitar), John Edwards (double bass)
  • ‘Naqsh’ – Pat Thomas (piano)
  • ‘Knottings’ – Alison Blunt (violin), Benedict Taylor (viola), David Leahy (double bass)
  • ‘Seven Cities’ – Kay Grant (voice), Alex Ward (clarinet)

‘Making Rooms’ is already getting rave reviews:

… certain to feature prominently in many an end-of-year list of best releases. Yes, a future classic. – John Eyles, All About Jazz

… sets a high standard… a release that anyone with any interest in freely improvised music will find inexhaustible. – Tim Owen, Dalston Sound

My CD with Alex Ward – ‘Seven Cities’ – features one track from each night of the tour, and showcases the continued evolution of our ongoing duo:

I’m typically wary of improv vocals, but there’s such lucidity in these songs that I’m won over, and the rapport she shares with Ward is always alluring. – Tim Owen, Dalston Sound

Listened to as a whole, it is impressive how consistent and coherent their interactions were across the seven gigs in seven cities. – John Eyles, All About Jazz

Read the full reviews:
Tim Owen, Dalston Sound
John Eyles, All About Jazz


Find out more about ‘Making Rooms’ and buy the Box Set from weekertoft.bandcamp.com

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Weekertoft is a new label for improvised music founded by guitarist John Russell and pianist Paul G. Smyth. “It is our wish to present documentation of improvised music that maintains a high level of quality both in production terms and in musical values. We want people to share with us the adventures and delights to be found in this vibrant area of music making… ”

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Matt Saunders, recordingthing
Photography by Peter Fay
Design by Paul G. Smyth

Mopomoso 2013 UK Tour Supported by Sound and Music

the Kay Grant All-four – Debut

23 May 2015

My new quartet, the Kay Grant All-four, will make its first live appearance at The Vortex on Wednesday 1 July 2015.

We will be playing original compositions which feature the voice as part of the instrumental whole, as well as structured improvisations and freely improvised pieces.

The lineup is:

  • Kay Grant, voice
  • Martin Speake, sax
  •  Liam Noble, piano
  • Mark Sanders, drums

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