THE NECKS – Live at Area Sismica, Forlì, Italy – 4th November 2011.
The Necks are three Australian 50-somethings – Chris Abrahams (piano), Tony Buck (percussion) and Lloyd Swanton (double bass).
Live, and on disc, their music consists of lengthy improvised pieces created with no conventional or pre-conceived ideas of start, middle or end.
After over 25 years together, the three have developed a degree of empathy which enables them to make music ‘in the moment’ without the fear of drying up or creating an in-cohesive noise. Instead they produce music which was well described by Richard Williams in an article for The Guardian as an “absorbing mesh of asynchronous rhythms”. Continue reading
