OUT TODAY:
CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright
CD / digital
Performed by virtuoso vocalist Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang (Michiel van Dijk, Erik-Jan de With, Anton van Houten, Pete Harden, Saskia Lankhoorn and Joey Marijs) and Wright’s improv/electronic group Spheric Totemic (Mandhira de Saram, Neil Charles, Alexander Hawkins, Stephen Davis and Matthew Wright).
"The imaginative, elegant performance of this composition, the careful negotiations between the compositional elements, and the rich, spontaneous improvisational languages of all the musicians, as well as Wright’s meticulous, layered post-production, blur the elusive distinctions between experimental, contemporary music, modern jazz, and free improvisations, and cement Cracked Glaze's deeply immersive effect."
-- Percorsi Musicali
6-panel gatefold sleeve, 20 page CD booklet and CD sleeve.
OUT NOW:
WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet
CD / digital on False Walls
Two more reviews:
"... one may wonder why this very beautiful album remained in the vaults for so long ... Wheeler’s style remains as refined as it is confident ... beautiful and moving"
-- Jazz Mania
" ... an album that sees the light after thirty years and not before time, Kenny perhaps at the peak of his later and smoother era"
-- Freq
Photos by Caroline Forbes
OUT NOW:
WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet
CD / digital on False Walls
"It’s all first-class ... A precious document indeed.'
-- Richard Williams / The Blue Moment
"This previously unreleased recording from 1995 captures Wheeler at a creative peak."
-- Jazzwise, 4 star review
"It is hard to understand why these recordings have gathered dust for 30 years. ... An important release from a great master and his colleagues."
-- Salt Peanuts
CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright
performed by Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang & Spheric Totemic
CD / digital on False Walls
Cracked Glaze feature and interview with Matthew Wright on New Music Show, BBC Radio 3, Saturday 2nd May, starts 54:54: search on BBC Sounds
From Nate Wooley’s sleeve notes:
“… great improvisors at the top of their game, a murderers’ row new music ensemble, and a near flawless recorded document."
PREVIEW: FR#303 Cracked Glaze by @1977mattwright / Sam Bailey’s Unruly Trio | 14.05.26, doors 7pm at Fruitworks, Canterbury CT1 2NP
Composer, producer and sound designer Matthew Wright introduces his new project Cracked Glaze, including a Q&A with the composer and an immersive playback of the 46-minute album, released in May on CD/digital by @falsewallscjmitchell (Faversham). Cracked Glaze was performed by vocalist Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang (Netherlands) and Wright’s improv/electronic group Spheric Totemic. The piece is built around a ‘spine’ of one long, descending scale, which is combined with other notation and improvisation.
‘this whole recording is rare and wonderful … the joy of hearing great improvisors at the top of their game, a murderers’ row new music ensemble, and a near flawless recorded document’ (Nate Wooley)
@sambaileymusician ’s Unruly Trio is a new project featuring bassist David Leahy and clarinetist @teejjacksonTom . Using earlier styles of jazz as starting points, they find ways of tearing the music apart before patching it back up again.
/fr303/
A big thank you to @aceagrams , our community and generous supporters for allowing us to present more events this Summer.
📷 Tessa Veldhorst / Musical Utopias
False Walls
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20% OFF EVERYTHING
USE CODE: MAYDAY
Boxsets:
Andrew Poppy (4 CDs and book)
Evan Parker (4 CDs and book)
Single CDs:
Kenny Wheeler Sextet
Matthew Wright
Helena Celle
Cindytalk
Henry Dagg & Evan Parker
Gene Coleman
Astrïd
Kevin Daniel Cahill
Transatlantic Trance Map (Evan Parker, Matthew Wright and others)
Tremble with Joy (Cindytalk, Drekka, Mark Trecka and remst8)
Astrïd and Sylvain Chauveau Cover Songs Originally Sung by Women Singers
CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright
performed by Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang & Spheric Totemic
CD / digital on False Walls
BANDCAMP FRIDAY:
20% OFF
USE CODE: MAYDAY
The album is being featured, including an interview with Matthew, on Radio 3’s New Music Show tomorrow (Saturday).
From Nate Wooley’s sleeve notes:
"… great improvisors at the top of their game, a murderers’ row new music ensemble, and a near flawless recorded document."
OUT NOW:
WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet
CD / digital on False Walls
BANDCAMP FRIDAY:
20% OFF
USE CODE: MAYDAY
"This previously unreleased recording from 1995 captures Wheeler at a creative peak."
Jazzwise review, 4 stars
OUT TODAY:
WHAT WAS
by Kenny Wheeler Sextet
CD / digital on False Walls
The first release of a 1995 studio session, produced by Evan Parker.
“… as vital and immediate as anything already in the extended canon of Canadian-born, UK-based jazz master Kenny Wheeler.” -- Paris-Move
" ... significant testimony to Kenny Wheeler's poetic genius, and its musical quality leads to the status of a significant rediscovery ... " -- Tracce di Jazz
Stream three tracks:
WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet
CD / digital on False Walls
Read the sleeve notes by Nick Smart:
/2026/03/nick-smart-sleeve-notes-for-kenny-wheeler-sextet/
'Song for Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler', by Nick Smart and Brian Shaw, is published by Equinox.
Listen to Matthew Wright's CRACKED GLAZE
on Such Music, Resonance FM
/Resonance/such-music-7-march-2026
CD / digital on False Walls:
/release/cracked-glaze/
New writing on the ARK blog, where musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about:
Richard Rees-Jones writes about Rook by Shearwater (2008)
and
Simon Tyler writes about Tabula Rasa by Arvo Pärt (1984)
/ark/
