Fringe Magnetic: Empty Spaces | CD review

(Loop)The 10-piece Fringe Magnetic is one of the most ambitious genre-bending enterprises operating under the umbrella of London's Loop Collective, which stages a five-day festival including this group at the Vortex from 17-21 February. Led by its principal composer, trumpeter Rory Simmons, the band hitches the elegant sonorities of classical strings to Fraud's James Allsopp, Outhouse's Robin Fincker, Tom Arthurs bassist Jasper Hoiby and that fine pianist Ivo Neame. Like Portico Quartet, this gr...

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