Biography
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Born
1963 (age 61)
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Born In
Falkirk, Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom
Uniting the disparate elements of Scottish jazz-guru Bill Wells and Japan's willfully amateur Maher Shalal Hash Baz ensemble, 'Osaka Bridge' (Karaoke Kalk, 2006) is an album that doesn't shirk from its lofty aspirations - bringing a juxtaposition of styles together and reigning them into collaboration without losing either party's creative finger-print.
The music is full of youthful optimism, with broken pop jangles played alongside splashes of classic jazz tones. Wit the brass section joyfully oblivious to bum notes and missed cues, an endearing rolling rhythm over uplifting wind sections.
Songs share both the imagination-run-riot ambition of the dream world and the inevitable melancholy of being rudely re-inserted back in the desert of the real.
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