Huw Warren/Peter Herbert
Everything We Love and More
BDV 2561

1. Habibi
2. Innocent Urban mp3
3. And the Kitchen Sink
4. Happy (as Larry)
5. Sachte
6. The Art of Hairdressing
7. Coup De Soleil mp3
8. Freckle Counting
9. How About this?
10. Bass Choir mp3
11. Kuuru Bizu
12. Interlude/Whistling Rufus mp3
13. Friendly Fire 3
14. Both Levels
15. Mil Harddach
16. Deep End
    
    
    Everything We Love and More is part of an ongoing partnership between pianist Huw Warren and acclaimed Austrian double bassist Peter Herbert following an emphatic concert at the London Jazz Festival in 2004 and a subsequent BBC Radio Jazz on 3 Broadcast.

Press reviews

"You should know of master-bassist Peter Herbert from the half dozen great discs that we've reviewed over the past few years, solos, duos (w/ Dave Tronzo) and even a bass sextet. British pianist, Huw Warren, is a name that I only vaguely remember, yet he has worked with June Tabor & Mark Feldman, has three solo discs on Babel, a duo disc with Pete Whyman on FMR and is in a band called the Perfect Houseplants. This Peter Herbert's second duo disc with a pianist, the first was a decade ago with Peter Madsen. That one was great (I just found a copy recently), but this one is even more extraordinary. Huw plays inside the piano as well as and the duo do a fabulous job of creating suspense and more mesmerizing sounds. Some of the pieces are quite beautiful and lyrical with some superb and exquisite piano from Huw. At times both players will rub their respective instruments with various objects creating strange and eerie sounds, often evoking cosmic spirits being cut loose. Sometimes Huw will mute the strings with his hands (?) and provide some fascinating percussive sounds. He is a master of these sounds and the duo often sound amazing exploring and combining their sounds together. This is quite a marvelous duo that should get the recognition they well deserve."
Bruce Lee Gallanter (New York's Downtown Music Gallery)

"...Warren has done it again, producing an album that, sadly, is once more unlikely to receive much mainstream exposure, but breaks considerable new ground and lifts the spirits several storeys. That much it shares with Duw A Wyr , if little else. Everything We Love And More is a collection of fifteen gorgeously melodic and vibrant originals, several of them apparently created in the moment, plus one cover of a traditional Welsh folk tune (”Mil Harddach”). Five of the tracks come in at about five minutes, the others closer to three. The liner notes list Warren on piano and Peter Herbert on bass—but that, literally, is only half the story. Running in parallel to conventionally played piano and bass are wonderfully organic electro-acoustic effects made on both instruments. Probably, they're overdubbed, but so fundamental are they to some of the tunes that they might well have been recorded first. In addition to the keyboard itself, Warren plays the strings, pedals, lid, cover, metal frame and legs of the piano, creating effects including chimes, cymbals, harp, drums (all sorts), pizzicato violin, prepared piano and xylophone. Herbert is similarly all over the bass. Engineer Gerry O'Riordan (also responsible for recording Duw A Wyr ) is effectively the third member of the lineup, masterfully capturing the full dynamic range of these sounds, from microscopic closeups to widescreen epics. Combining inspired sonic innovation with a lyricism so pretty that sometimes you feel like you're in a fairy tale, Everything We Love And More is a milestone work of quiet genius." (Chris May All About Jazz)

"...a truly personal creation of two great musicans".
Peter Bacon (Birmingham Post, Dec 11 2006)

Huw Warren is one of the most original voices on the current new music scene. As a composer and multi instrumentalist, his work is difficult to categorise, finding fans and admirers in the worlds of Jazz, New Music and World Music. Born in Swansea in 1962, he studied piano and cello; and first worked as a teenager playing Hammond Organ in the Working Men's Clubs of South Wales. Having discovered jazz by chance from radio broadcasts, Huw also became interested in the English experimental music scene after studying with John Tilbury in London from 1980-83. Huw performed regularly with seminal 80's big band Loose Tubes, and has collaborated with English singer June Tabor for over a decade; touring extensively with her as pianist/arranger and recording several CDs. In 1989 he co-founded the award-winning ensemble Perfect Houseplants (with Mark Lockheart, Dudley Phillips and Martin France). Huw has also worked with Kenny Wheeler, Billy Bragg, Steve Arguelles, Julian Arguelles, Billy Jenkins, Christine Tobin, Eddi Reader and African guitarist Mose Se “Fan-Fan”. Huw has released three albums on the Babel Label 1997's “A Barrel Organ Far from Home”, was a suite of pieces for a nine-piece ensemble, based on early photographs by English photographer John Topham; 2001 saw the release of his critically acclaimed solo CD "Infinite Riches in a Little Room"; and 2004 saw the release of “100's of Things a boy can make ” , a collaboration with US violinist Mark Feldman and Austrian bassist Peter Herbert. Huw won the coveted award for Innovation at the 2005 BBC Jazz Awards and has recently released a well-received set of Welsh hymn tunes on the CD Duw A Wyr
(God Only Knows) on Babel with Welsh singer Lleuwen Steffan.

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