Scald - Live 2022

3xCD set of Anthropology Band live in 2022 at the Newcastle Festival Of Jazz And Improvised Music and at Cafe Oto, London. The band's current 8 piece line up was on fiery form for both gigs, playing a mixture of both old and new material to full houses. With the electric 70s music of Miles Davis as it's starting point and the improvised abstraction of AACM as its end point, these recording show a band growing out of the studio and going from strength to strength as it hits the stage. "An outstanding collection of improvisers with a programme that is inspired by, but definitely not copies from, electric Miles. It's how Miles might have sounded if his collaboration with Jimi Hendrix and Gil Evans had come about. Keeffe is a real find, and when Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas started feeding off each other, the audience erupted." - Peter Slavid, review of Liverpool International Jazz Festival gig. Martin Archer: tenor saxophone, saxello, melodica, electronics Charlotte Keeffe: trumpet and flugelhorn Pat Thomas: piano, keyboards, electronics Orphy Robinson: xylosynth Chris Sharkey: guitar, electronics Anton Hunter: guitar, electronics Dave Sturt: bass guitar, electronics Adam Fairclough: drums