In a Q&A before this show, Splashgirl pianist Andreas Stensland Løwe was, in a quiet and unassuming way, making the point that his music was not jazz. Indeed, the band’s biography cites their primary influences as being the likes of Earth and Sunn O))). Their new album Pressure has in fact been produced by Randall Dunn, who did likewise on the most recent albums by those two bands, The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull, and Monoliths and Dimensions respectively. But listening to the young, softly spoken, smartly dressed Løwe, you couldn’t help but doubt that he was about to start shredding some black metal drone. If he was about to tear up the jazz rule book, the Pizza Express Jazz Club would probably have been an odd place to start. Read the rest of this post over at The Liminal. (photo by Tim Ferguson)
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