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Run Logan Run: For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

By Chris May
October 5, 2021
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Run Logan Run: For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

Tenor saxophone and drums albums have been at the heart of London's alternative jazz scene since its first stirrings around 2015. That year, saxophonist

Binker Golding

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Binker Golding and drummer

Moses Boyd

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Moses Boyd, then members of singer

Zara McFarlane

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Zara McFarlane's backing band, started tossing riffs and beats back and forth to each other during pre-gig soundchecks.

In short order, the duo formed the semi-free

" data-original-title="" title="">Binker and Moses, and have since released four albums which are among the crown jewels of the new British jazz: Dem Ones (Gearbox, 2015), Journey To The Mountain Of Forever (Gearbox, 2017), Alive In The East? (Gearbox, 2018) and Escape The Flames (Gearbox, 2020).

Meanwhile, over in Bristol in England's West Country, saxophonist

Andrew Neil Hayes

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Andrew Neil Hayes and drummer

Dan Johnson

" data-original-title="" title="">Dan Johnson were getting the

John Coltrane

saxophone
1926 - 1967

" data-original-title="" title="">John Coltrane /

Elvin Jones

drums
1927 - 2004

" data-original-title="" title="">Elvin Jones "One Down, One Up" message, too. In 2017, the pair formed Run Logan Run, debuting with the excellent The Delicate Balance Of Terror (Weizen Baum) in 2018. The album was produced by

Danalogue the Conqueror

synthesizer

" data-original-title="" title="">Danalogue the Conqueror, keyboard player with tenor saxophonist and clarinetist

Shabaka Hutchings

woodwinds

" data-original-title="" title="">Shabaka Hutchings' Afro-Futurist trio

The Comet Is Coming

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">The Comet Is Coming. (Hutchings, incidentally, has performed live with just a turntablist accompanying him, but has yet to record in a tenor-drums setting).

Dan Johnson has since left RLR and his place has been taken by

Matthew Brown

drums
b.1979

" data-original-title="" title="">Matthew Brown, formerly of Bristol's

Dakhla Brass

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Dakhla Brass ensemble. In 2020, weaving in and out of lockdown, the new duo recorded For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers, co-produced with Nostalgia 77's

Riaan Vosloo

bass

" data-original-title="" title="">Riaan Vosloo. Vosloo added some bass guitar and synths after the event but the additions ornament rather than recalibrate what remains, fundamentally, a tenor saxophone and drums outing. The sound on For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers combines an explicit nod towards industrial rock and a continuing fascination with mid-period

Pharoah Sanders

saxophone, tenor
1940 - 2022

" data-original-title="" title="">Pharoah Sanders. The sound is big, in your face, rough hewn and intense. Those members of the jazz police who have not already been vaporized by Binker and Moses are advised to stand well back. Great stuff.

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Track Listing

Screaming With The Light On; A Brief Moment; Give Me Back My Slippers; Moving With Speed; It��s About Ice Cream; Cold Shower; Shout Song; Wise Man Eames.

Personnel

Andrew Neil Hayes

saxophone, tenor

Matthew Brown

drums

Riaan Vosloo

bass

Additional Instrumentation

Andrew Neil Hayes: tenor saxophone, electronics; Matt Brown: drum kit, percussion; Riaan Vosloo: bass guitar, synthesizers.

Album information

Title: For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: Worm Discs

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