BENEATH DISCORDANT SKIES (vinyl)

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BETWEEN PUNK, FREE JAZZ AND ART-ROCK TED MILTON: VOCALS, ALTO SAXOPHONE STEVE EAGLES: GUITAR DAVE AYLWARD: DRUMS Mythical trio from Stroud, in Gloucestershire, Blurt was born in 1979, in the midst of punk fervor. Its leader, Ted Milton, wrestles with his saxophone between free jazz and art-rock. Blurt’s music, often presented as the British side of New York no-wave, is in fact more experimental. It comes closer to punk through the guitar-drums blend that accompanies Ted’s voice and sax. Seeing Blurt play, Don Cherry once told Ted that he reminded him of the good old days of the Ornette Coleman Quartet. From 1981, the year the first LP In Berlin was released, to 1989, the band put out around ten records. A serious rival to Mark E. Smith of The Fall, Ted has released more than thirty albums to date. A multi-talented artist, Ted Milton released a first book in Italy in 1963, then his poems were published in various magazines, including Paris Review. He then became a puppeteer, which led him to collaborate with Terry Gilliam on his film Jabberwocky (1977). He also created artist’s books in the 1990s, which were exhibited at the Bibliothèque national de Paris and the British Library. In 2001, Ted created a tribute to Daniil Kharms, the absurdist Russian author, during a performance where puppets, poetry and electronic music blend together.