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https://gappytooth.com/
https://www.klubkakofanney.co.uk/
It’s All About The Music
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Nightshift Magazine
https://nightshiftmag.co.uk/
About Famous Banana Pictures
Famous Banana Pictures video production was created in 2014 by filmmaker Laima Bite, and specializes in music videos, promos and adverts for artists. Although mostly working with musicians, FBP has also helped authors and small businesses.
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Pete Fryer Band
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OX4 All Stars
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The Locals
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-locals-play-the-music-of-anthony-braxton-103cd-2021
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/pat-thomas-and-the-locals-play-the-music-of-anthony-braxton
https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2021/04/26/the-locals-play-the-music-of-anthony-braxton/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Anthony-Braxton-Thomas-Locals/dp/B08QS394VK
https://houseofprog.com/the-locals-the-locals-play-the-music-of-anthony-braxton-2020/
https://avantmusicnews.com/2021/01/31/amn-reviews-pat-thomas-the-locals-play-the-music-of-anthony-braxton-2006-discus-music/
https://www.academia.edu/49184452/Review_of_The_Locals_Play_The_Music_of_Anthony_Braxton
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2024/08/jazz-em-agosto-2024-part-33.html
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Anthony Braxton as a member of Defunkt? Was this in the brain of pianist Pat Thomaswhen he assembled The Locals? Alex Ward contorts clarinet in a spread of heavily syncopated drums, bass and guitar, Thomas diving into the disruptive James Chance role with his chiming big-hand-splay scatter-runs. Yes, this funk is an obsessive no-wave version, sprung from the very earliest 1980s NYC alleyways. Crackling and cracking snare marks the frying tight-time, with wriggling noir clarinet and atonal strafe-guitar. Our only quibble might spring from the singularity of approach, although there is a lone reggae reading towards the end, with Thomas under his lid: Braxton in Brixton, momentarily…
In 2020, the group, The Locals, released “Play the music of Anthony Braxton,” a joyous re-thinking of Braxton’s music, cast as funk. It was a recording from an appearance in 2006, something from pianist Pat Thomas’ archives. The band, in addition to Thomas, is Alex Ward on clarinet, Evan Thomas on electric guitar, Dominic Lash on electric bass and Darren Hasson-Davis on drums, and while it was Pat Thomas who arranged the tunes, the sound of the band on the outdoor amphitheater stage this evening was effectively shaped by Ward’s thrilling clarinet work and Evan Thomas’ pure 80’s funk guitar work.