Dominic Lash is a polymath, equally at home playing with the world’s great free-improvisers (Evan Parker, Tony Conrad, Joe Morris), notating complex compositions and writing about poetry, film and music. This restless intellect is combined with a deep and quicksilver musical intuition that can be heard in the extraordinary music played by his quartet on this last date of their UK tour.
Ranging from intense electric free jazz maelstroms to spacious harmonic richness, by way of some weirder constructions, the quartet takes in its stride music by the 14th-century French avant-garde composer Solage and the free-jazz pianist Cecil Taylor. The quartet's last album, Extremophile, was described by All About Jazz as "thrilling listening" and by Kind of Jazz as sounding like "demented wasps".
The Dominic Lash Quartet are: Dominic Lash (double bass, compositions, arrangements), Javier Carmona (drums, percussion), Ricardo Tejero (reed instruments), Alex Ward (electric guitar, clarinet).