29th February 2016: Preston – Glasgow – Lowe to release eponymous debut album on 29th April 2016
British trio Preston – Glasgow – Lowe release their eponymous debut album with an energetic and technically thrilling record of original material. Writing and performing together since 2012, London-based David Preston (guitar), Kevin Glasgow (six-string electric bass) and Laurie Lowe (drums) have steadily honed their own particular style of complex riffs and thunderous rhythms complete with subtle, low-level electronics and overdubs. The project’s creative and developmental processes open up a panoply of textures and colors – from open, contemplative oases to heavyweight, blistering maelstrom – yet it all emanates from this close collaboration of just three musically-incisive minds.
Preston – Glasgow – Lowe’s carefully constructed sequences invite their own compositional extensions and improvisations to seamlessly flow in and out of the framework, searching for the undiscovered, as intimated by David Preston: “For me, the trio format is one of the most interesting, with its opportunities and challenges to either create or fill space; so it’s always exciting to get together with like-minded musicians, in that context, to spend time analyzing what you want to explore, and what maybe you haven’t yet heard, so you can then answer that question as thoroughly and as honestly as you can.”
The sheer, virtuosic rapidity of the playing found within these 65 minutes is striking – from the tumultuous, firecracker synchronicity of ‘C:\>PU’ and ‘Colour Possesses’ to the melodic guitar breadth and animated bass grooving of ‘Everything in Everything’, and the breathless six-string bass velocity of ‘Elephant and Castle’ to Laurie Lowe’s viscerally penetrating drum eruption at the centre of three-part ‘Within You’. Presenting a cool, synthy spatiality, ‘Song to the Citadel’ prompts exquisite fretboard roaming and pitch-bending from both Preston and Glasgow; while the intensifying, rock-infused urgency of ‘The Priory’ – written in part as a through-composed drum solo – features Lowe’s relentless yet nuanced drumming.
In a fertile environment which melds the ethos of jazz-rock fusion with enthusiastic invention, this is a trio whose combined experience and prowess is distilled into an intuitive and invigorating program, fine-tuned from their live sessions. As Kevin Glasgow sums up: “We’ve been shaping this music together for some time, and have received some great reactions at gigs; it’s a concept that comes from within us, so we can’t wait to share it more widely through this album release.”
Preston – Glasgow – Lowe will be touring the UK starting in April in support of the launch of the album. For full details including how to book tickets, go: here
March 29 – The Vortex, London
April 13 – Dempseys, Cardiff
April 14 – Bonington Theatre, Nottingham
April 15 – The Fusebox, Leeds
April 16 – The Verdict, Brighton
April 17 – Southampton Modern Jazz
April 20 – The Lescar, Sheffield
April 21 – The Future Inn, Bristol
April 22 – Hot Numbers Coffee, Cambridge
April 24 – The Alex, Felixstowe
April 26 – The Phoenix, York
April 28 – The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh
April 29 – Café Lento, Leeds
April 30 – Jazz Co-op, Newcastle
