After meeting for the first time at Glasgow's Tectonic Festival in 2015, the duo established their saxophone/pedal steel collaboration. During the last 5 years I was working hard and (especially the duo with Heather Leigh which will of course go on) I covered what there is to cover in Europe.With a sound ranging from sensual to sleazy and with a volume range from mind-melting to gentle, improvisational duo Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh have a charismatic and striking dynamic of polarities that come together in a unique sonic collaboration.BRTZMANN/LEIGH Peter Brtzmann: tenor, alto-saxophones, tarogato, b-flat clarinet Heather Leigh: pedal steel guitar UTTER EXISTENSTIAL DEVASATION Since 2015, Peter Brtzmann (reeds) & Heather Leigh (pedal steel guitar), have established themselves as the formidable duo, BRTZMANN/LEIGH, touring extensively and electrifying audiences with their singular, dynamic group sound all over. Peter Brtzmann & Heather Leigh Sex Tape Tour 30 November 2017, Common Room, Hastings I stood at Common Room’s bar and spoke with Peter Brtzmann after what must have been a draining performance for the 76-year-old saxophonist, and not just because of his age.Heather Leigh/Peter Brötzmann Photo: suppliedHeather Leigh is a musical polymath in the truest sense of the word primarily known as an influential practitioner of pedal steel guitar, her work is impossible to pigeonhole - all-over-the-place in the best way, from collaborations with Peter Br&246 tzmann and Shackleton to a properly mind-bending duo of albums for Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ and Editions Mego - hers is a sound that. Now on vinyl thanks to Austria’s Trost Records, Ears are Filled with Wonder elides two singular instrumental voices - big Pete blowing hard on tenor sax, bass clarinet, tarrogato, b-flat clarinet Glasgow’s experimental. Chalk ’n cheese jazz improvisation, recorded at Alchemia, November 8th, 2015 in Krakow during Brtzmann & Leigh’s long stint there playing in various arrangements.
Peter Brötzmann And Heather Leigh Series Of Improvised
They feel like pieces to us when we play and I like that very much,” says Leigh.Neither have had any formal music training. We don't discuss what we are going to do but it has a compositional aspect to it. Düsseldorf-based Brötzmann plays alto and tenor saxophone and b-flat clarinet and is best known for the radical 1968 free jazz landmark album Machine Gun.Heather Leigh was born in Houston, Texas, but is now a Glasgow resident She's cultivated her own approach to the pedal steel – an instrument commonly associated with country and western music.“Indeed it is quite a strange combination and to tell you the truth, when Heather first asked me to join her for the festival I didn't really have an idea what this funny instrument sounds like."But I think we both knew right away after our first concert that, OK, this is worth moving forward with and seeing where we can take the music,” says Brötzmann.Peter Broetzmann and Heather Leigh in Coromandel Photo: Kiran DassSex Tape is a series of improvised pieces (each simply titled 'Sex Tape One,' 'Sex Tape Two,' and so on) where scorched blues rhythms meet sustained minimal riffs and tightly wound metallic squalls that shred through scales.As Brötzmann says, the noise scale ranges from “0 to 100%.” Over 47 minutes, the compelling thing about the duo's sound is the texture and a kind of instinctive intuition for allowing each other space to weave in and out.“It is improvised. Peter Brtzmann has spent more than 50 years repping.
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