Caught in the Light of Day reviews
Ivo Neame’s Caught in the Light of Day has received some really great press over the last few weeks culminating with a 4 star lead review in MOJO magazine:
“Mutli-layered opus from multi-talented composer / improvisor Ivo Neame. Caught in the Light of Day captures some of the most offbeat and intricate sounds around. Arrangements take unexpoected turns into beautiful absraction and the soloing has a business-as-usual brilliance. These seven originals are so densely packed with good stuff, fresh things unfold with every listen”. MOJO ****
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“I will just say that the band is totally smoking, the music is modern, angular, complex and stunning and the over-all impression is jaw dropping. I’m really digging this one! If you have a taste for more modern, aggressive and/or artistic approach to jazz, check “Caught in the LIght of Day” out”. BASS PLAYER MAGAZINE
“Angular lines, unexpected intervals and changes of tempo and mood, all negotiated with a deft fluidity echoed by the playing of this fine young quartet”. IRISH TIMES
“Sounds rather like a slippery, angular, latterday MJQ”. OBSERVER
A showcase for Neame’s blossoming keyboard powers. There are fast postboppers with stop-time variations, meditations turning into arrhythmic Latin grooves, bright melodic fragments dropping into preoccupied rocking vamps and then dreamy contemplation. It’s a set full of edgy and characterful themes, matched by resourceful, conversational improvising”. GUARDIAN ****
“Multi instrumentalist Ivo Neame is fast becoming one of the rising stars of British jazz. Tightly kinit, superbly played music from an increasingly mature musician and composer”. JAZZ MANN ****
“Appealing, fresh and stimulating, courtesy not only of the infectious enthusiasm and commitment of Neame’s band but also of the sheer classiness of his writing for it. Recommended”. VORTEX JAZZ REVIEWS
“Neame’s intricately engaging Caught In The Light Of Day (Edition) is an album of varied, virtuosic musicianship, from the fleet-footed bop of opener Birdbrained, through the dark romanticism of Quixotic, to the dense, angular, Monk-ish descending motifs of closer Pear Shaped”. METRO
“Caught in the Light of Day is a calling card which many listeners will be able to appreciate. Because the quality of the music is that it is not pretentiously innovative, but it’s firmly grounded in the best straight ahead-jazz tradition, and adds elements of contemporary music with discretion. The writing goes beyond traditional song form by using a patchwork quilt of influences. This allows the musicians to play with rhythmic freedom and changeable harmonic structures, allowing the musical flow to unfold smoothly or to twist nervously between sudden swerves and unexpected accelerations. ALL ABOUT JAZZ ITATIA
There’s something splendidly unhip about Neame: he plays complex, intellectual music with unashamedly extended sections of soloing and free blowing. An album of great promise”. JAZZWISE
“From the initial accelerating line that opens the title track, it’s clear that here is a band pushing hard with exacting playing and complex material”. JAZZ BREAKFAST
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