Blue Touch Paper – review

Kings Place, LondonColin Towns, the one-time rock pianist and TV and film composer, paints big musical canvases, full of colliding characters who sound like relatives of Stravinsky, Zappa, the Beatles, Miles Davis or Kurt Weill. He usually unleashes a big band on it, but this spring pursues a comparable soundscape with just a stack of digital kit and six musicians.Playing only its second live gig, Towns's new Blue Touch Paper sextet almost inevitably spent time finding its feet while its melody ...

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