Matthew Bourne
Montauk Variations
Release Date: Feb 21, 2012
Genre(s): Jazz
Record label: Leaf
Music Critic Score
How the Music Critic Score works
Buy Montauk Variations from Amazon
Album Review: Montauk Variations by Matthew Bourne
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Matthew Bourne has won spires of jazz awards and flits between a suitably dizzying number of improvisational jazz to proto metal outfits. Matthew has also recently successfully applied to become one of four UK musicians supported to perform and write in China as part of a PRS for Music Foundation and British Council-funded residency plan. Matthew’s existence within music is a seemingly grown-up take on the record, release perform dichotomy.
Opinion: Excellent
An expectations-confounding listen of solo piano experimentation. Martin Longley 2012 Usually, the Wiltshire keyboardist Matthew Bourne is heard in a combo context, habitually making music of a more violently improvisatory nature, hunkered down with elements ripped out of dance music, rock and abstract electronica. That’s just the kind of sound that might be identified with The Leaf Label, but with his debut recording for them, Bourne has confounded expectations.
'Montauk Variations'
is available now