TONUS at Hundred Years Gallery, London
Impetus Group at Hundred Years Gallery, London
Solo for Horse Improv Club live stream
New Dark Art Quartet at LUME, London
Webster / Cirera at Dragon, Poznan, Poland
Webster / Challenger at waterintobeer
Two New Releases On New Wave Of Jazz
Two new releases on the iconic New Wave of Jazz label run by Dirk Serries. Firstly, an acoustic duo with Dirk Serries – ‘Light Industry’. Dirk and I have collaborated extensively in Kodian Trio, TONUS, Fear Falls Burning, and have one previous duo album ‘Gargoyles’ (Raw Tonk Records). ‘Light Industry’ is the debut recording in this acoustic set-up.
“Light Industry continues their restless search for new challenges, dynamics, and textures, but now in expanded improvisations that deepen their personal approaches, including unique, extended techniques and manipulations of their instruments.” – Eyal Hareuveni, Free Jazz Blog
Line-up: Colin Webster – alto saxophone, Dirk Serries – acoustic guitar
‘Praxis’ is another collaboration with Dirk Serries on acoustic guitar, with the addition of Martina Verhoeven on piano. This trio has worked together before in both improvised settings and in TONUS. Although improvised, the music on ‘Praxis’ has a highly controlled feel to it in terms of dynamics and interaction, which has a lot in common with the music of TONUS.
“The Praxis of this trio is unhurried and sparse, quiet and contemplative. But the improvisations – with its twisted and manipulated sounds, extracted by an array of extended techniques – flow in total freedom and spacious atmosphere, sketching abstract textures that, intentionally, avoid dense, powerful climaxes.” – Eyal Hareuveni, Free Jazz Blog
Review of both albums by Vital Weekly
Review of both albums by Free Jazz Blog
Review of both albums by Jazz Halo (in Dutch)
Review of ‘Light Industry’ by Opduvel (in Dutch)
Review of ‘Praxis’ by Opduvel (in Dutch)
Line-up: Dirk Serries – acoustic guitar, Martina Verhoeven – piano, Colin Webster – alto saxophone
Live In Leeds
Recorded during Kodian Trio’s UK tour in 2019, ‘Live in Leeds’ is available as limited edition CDR on Raw Tonk Records. The band’s performance at LS6 Cafe was captured and mixed by Chris Sharkey.
The CDR was intended as a ‘live only’ release available at gigs on the European tour that we sadly had to cancel due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Proceeds from the sales of this album are now going towards recovering some of our losses from the cancelled tour.
Line-up: Dirk Serries – electric guitar, Andrew Lisle – drums, Colin Webster – alto saxophone
Zeal and Perseverance
Available now from the Norwegian label Va Fongool, is the new album by my trio with Andrew Lisle (drums) and Stian Larsen (guitar) – Zeal and Perseverance.
“Zeal and Perseverance captures faithfully the essence of the trio: hard-hitting and dynamic play of pushing and crisscrossing musical borders that visits and reshapes our conceptions of free jazz, rock and noise territories.” – Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
Line-up: Stian Larsen – electric guitar, Andrew Lisle – drums, Colin Webster – alto saxophone
Kodian Trio 5th Anniversary Tour
Two New Live Releases
Two recent live releases. ‘Live at 2nd Spontaneous Music Festival’ documents two different sets at the festival in Poznan, Poland in 2018. The first set is a duo with Barcelona-based drummer and percussionist Vasco Trilla. The second set is with the addition of Polish guitarist Michal Dymny.
Review by Jazzword
Review by Spontaneous Music Tribune (in Polish)
Line-up: Colin Webster – alto saxophone, Vasco Trilla – drums and percussion, Michal Dymny – electric guitar
‘Live at New River Studios’ is a cassette release on the Sound Holes label from Scotland. Sound Holes previously released ‘Most Of What Follows Is True’ with Graham Dunning back in 2017. As part of their new live series they have released this concert recording with John Macedo on modular synth, captured at New River Studios in North London.
Line-up: John Macedo – modular synthesizer, Colin Webster – alto saxophone
BRÅK Season 8 and BRÅK Fest
Two New Releases On New Wave Of Jazz
Two new releases on the iconic New Wave of Jazz label run by Dirk Serries. Firstly, ‘Boskage’ is a set of improvisations with acoustic guitarist Daniel Thompson.
“Without experimentation, there can be no growth. Thompson and Webster take this notion to heart, expanding the grammar and vocabulary of their instruments, breaking conventional rules of interplay in the process.” – Mike Borella, Avant Music News
Line-up: Colin Webster – alto sax, Daniel Thompson – acoustic guitar
The second release is from the ever-evolving TONUS ensemble, this time as a trio with Dirk Serries on accordion and soprano melodica, and Martina Verhoeven on concertina and ‘cello. The three pieces that make up ‘Segment Tones’ sit at the intersection between minimalism, improvisation, and composition.
Review of both albums by Spontaneous Music Tribune (in Polish)
Review of both albums by Vital Weekly
Review of Segment Tones by De Subjectivisten (in Dutch)
Line-up: Dirk Serries – accordeon, soprano melodica, Martina Verhoeven – concertina, ‘cello, Colin Webster – clarinet, alto sax
Webster / Holub Winter Tour
Kodian Trio III
Kodian Trio’s third studio album is available now from Trost Records. The album was recorded at White Noise Studio in Winterswijk, NL. Two of the tracks feature on the White Noise video sessions.
The album was engineered, mixed and mastered by Marlon Wolterink. Marlon has written an excellent overview of the recording process.
Review by Spontaneous Music Tribune (in Polish)
Review by Enola Magazine (in Flemish)
Review by Can This Even Be Called Music
Line-up: Dirk Serries – electric guitar, Andrew Lisle – drums, Colin Webster – alto saxophone
