AVC

Busk

By AVC

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2013
Track listing: Degree Absolute; Nutmeg State; She Said It Ugly; Second Season; Giant Mice; Never Ever; What��s For Breakfast; Dust Red.

AVC: Busk

by Glenn Astarita
October 6, 2013

This production signifies yet another example of UK-based Babel Records' vast array of young or nascent talent spanning everything from ferocious, free-jazz experimentation to artists who bridge numerous jazz and unrelated genres into a cohesive entity. ACV is a group of stalwarts who respectively boast resumes of stints with exalted modern improvisers such as guitarist Fred ...

AVC: Busk

by Karl Ackermann
June 24, 2013

The UK label Babel has been nurturing unique talent for the better part of twenty years, judiciously releasing only about a half-dozen albums in a given year. Many of their artists play on the fringes of jazz and some go way beyond the pale. AVC are hardly outliers but neither is the quintet a predictable, formulaic ...