Ed Bennett: Dzama Stories – review

(Quartz Music)Ed Bennett is a widely performed Irish contemporary composer and has studied with cross-genre maverick Brian Irvine. This project for his own 10-piece Decibel band, plus electronics and solo improviser, is inspired by the Canadian painter Marcel Dzama, and features British saxophonist Paul Dunmall – a force-of-nature performer perfect for such a muscular, savage venture. Dunmall's soprano howls over pumping low chords, horror-movie strings and frantic cymbal patterns at the outs...

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