ReRec. 
Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward, Hugh Hopper, Orphy Robinson
& guest cornet Robert Wyatt : Clear Frame (UK,2007)***'
In this (jazz) improvisation, the participants succeed in giving each other the space needed for their own entity and significance, so the group hangs well together. It is a rather free improvisation of which the given titles are, if you wish more or less, undeliberate or not, directions or descriptions of the general energy in the different sections : “clean state”, “Tin Plate”, “Noise Gate”, “Void Crate”, “High Rate”, “Better Late”, “Paperweight” and “Figure Eight”. The drum gives some kind of fundament of general rhythms (recorded first ?), which follow the organic time line with its balancing evolution, or directs in cooperation with the cooperative bass, while the fuzzed bass gently pushes and penetrates directions, the sax lives on the free moments, while the vibraphones / steel pan add more, colouring layers of free moments or adds as well a few extra rhythmic pulses. The improvisations have much continuum, but there are a few breaks for different sections. The last track goes a bit in 8-circles, not knowing where to go to or to stop or whereto include, so instead makes it an ode to infinity with its final moments. A great session, of rather free, improvised and jazz styled music.
Participants are Lol Coxhill (soprano sax player known for numerous improvised & solo works ; he appeared also on 1984 by Hugh Hopper), Charles Hayward (drummer for Quiet Sun, This Heat, Camberwell Now,..) Hugh Hopper (bass) & Robert Wyatt (cornet) (both Soft Machine legends and solo), Orphy Robinson (here for vibraphone, steel pan, FX, percussion, from Courtney Pine, Jamaica Allstar).
