Quivers / Chora
Split

4
...according to our Ant on 26 August 2010.

Choras side on this recorded it totally spooked. The line up here is Rob Lye, Ben Morris, Ben Nash and Karl Brummer. Cloning my eyes it's not difficult to imagine being on some shamanic ceremony or ritual. Although this is clearly freely improvised it feels very controlled with a clear vision, although what that is I'm unsure. 'I Met An Oak Tree As Tall As My Finger: And It Was Suffering' Is a super mysterious blend of reeds, percussion and bowed instruments. Quivers side pairs up nicely with Chora's with both complementing the others sound. Stylistically quite similar although Quivers approach is far less subtle opting for itchy and intense hyperactive sounds that build a strange and almost unfathomable abstract sound world with glimpses of something tangible. Like Chora there's also a sort of free jazz methodology at work here.

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What their label says...

Chora is the British duo of Rob Lye and Ben Morris, joined here by Ben Nash and Karl Brummer. Their music is a gorgeous mix of psychedelic free-form improvisation and ecstatic free jazz, with hypnotic percussion, cymbals, bowed instruments, eerie reeds, and an overall ritualistic, shamanic vibe.

Quivers is one of the projects led by guitarist Ninni Morgia, whose activity dates back to the early 90s with the noise rock band White Tornado, with whom he released several records and splits with Oxbow, Colossamite on Skin Graft records, and went on playing in the NY free jazz improv scene with musicians like Daniel Carter, William Parker, Peter Evans, Jack Wright, Kevin Shea and many others. He is also an ex-member of the psychedelic band La Otracina, releasing two albums on the Holy Mountain label. On this third Quivers release, Ninni is joined by Jordon Schranz on upright bass (also a member of free jazz band the Eastern Seabord) and drummer extraordinaire Mike Pride, who has played with Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Nels Cline and Keiji Haino among others.  

Some press quotes from Quivers' previous releses:

"...The centre of Quivers' wide-open mix is the versatile guitar work of Ninni Morgia. Over the five untitled tracks on 2012, Morgia's sounds range from miniaturist pin-pricks to sheets of dense fuzz. He opens the second track with warped feedback that sounds nearly electronic, then drifts into a Hendrix-style wail..." (Marc Masters, The Wire, January '09) QUIVERS - "2012" LP (Tigerasylum records)

"...On 'Once There Were Some', they seem to be using early Sonny and Linda Sharrock combos as a model. The guitar is promonent and dense, the bass and drums fill out the bottom with bustle, and the vocals attack the upper register with post tongue abandon." (Byron Coley, The Wire, 2007) QUIVERS - Once There Were Some" CDr (Tigerasylum records)

"...Beautifully out avant garage/jazz group with Kriney on drums, electric guitarist Ninni Morgia on post Sharrock/Takayanagi jazz/skronk moves, upright bass from Jordan Schranz and freely extrapolated lyrical/wordless vocal blurts from Marie Evelyn." (David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue, July 2006)