(Ninety and Nine Records. CD Review by Mark McKergow)
Garden City is Bristol-based duo Eyebrow’s fourth album - but the first to see wider attention by appearing on this established New York label. Trumpet, drums and electronics combine to produce bewitching soundscapes, minimal yet rich and moving.
Eyebrow are trumpeter Pete Judge and drummer Paul Wigens. That’s it. Judge is probably better known as one quarter of BBC Jazz Award-winning ambient groove merchants Get The Blessing. He has developed a very personal approach to the trumpet; close-miked, tight, often muted and incorporating electronic pedals and effects. This inevitably brings Miles Davis references into the equation, but Judge’s work has developed over a decade and more to go beyond any simple comparison.
Driving the rhythm, Paul Wigens’ drum patterns are simple yet carefully placed. The whole sound is of much greater richness than the line-up might suggest. The music has clearly been well engineered and produced, but this is no product of studio trickery – the group play the same material live, (link below).
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