The Necks – review

Bishopsgate Centre, LondonYou can generate all kinds of similes listening to The Necks: a picture gallery, an urban landscape, the surface of the moon. But the metaphor that sprang to mind for their latest appearance, at the London Jazz festival, was the sea. Over two unbroken, hour-long sets, the Australian trio stirred up a sonic ocean that ebbed and flowed and swelled into great tidal waves of sound, a pulsating wash of drums, percussion, double bass and grand piano. All three musicians push ...

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