rob dainton: drums - simon h fell: bass - phil hargreaves: saxes/flute
deodar
gean
katsura part 1
katura part 2
hiba
rauli
coigue
madrona
On 17th June 2000, we played our first trio gig, at Manchester Royal Exchange studio theatre, as part of the Manchester jazz festival. At the time we hadn't fixed on the name 'amere3', and so we were billed as 'fell, dainton & hargreaves', which sounds as much like a firm of lawyers as all the other three-name-trios around. As usual with Manchester Jazz Festival gigs, there was a full house (about 90-100), and both ourselves and bark (the other band on the bill) revelled in the attention.
The following day we went into Parr St Studios in Liverpool and recorded 'trees'. Although we did one of my compositions (in sacred space) at the manchester gig, 'trees' is entirely improvised, and was recorded as it happened, direct to stereo. The results were much more varied than we (or at least I) were expecting. including one track ('coigue') that was teetering delightfully on the brink of being inaudible.
In the event it took months of discussion to whittle the 80+ minutes of recorded material into the edifice that is 'trees', followed by a comical series of snafu's, so it took over a year to get it out. But here it is, and now it stands on its own two feet. There's bits on the soundfiles page if you think you might like it...
phil
hargreaves
august 2001