Lucky Teeth, by Liam Noble & Geoff Simkins

Lucky Teeth

by Liam Noble & Geoff Simkins

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Luke Annesley I've been keenly anticipating this one. What a beautiful album, but we knew it would be!

betsyflute Two of my most favourite artists playing utterly beautifully. Who could ask for anything more! xx

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LUCKY TEETH.
(From the inner sleeve):

One fine Sunday my partner and I were meandering through the peaceful, overgrown paths of Brighton’s Victorian extra-mural cemetery when we happened upon a memorial stone to one Albert “Zanetto” Bale, a music hall artiste and member of a family known as “The Royal Zanettos”. Some on-line enquiries uncovered this detail about another family member, George……”Because he was the tallest of the Bale brothers George is easy to recognise in many photos. In some later close-ups it looks as if he may have had “lucky teeth” with a slight gap between the front two. If so, it may have helped to hold the fork on which he caught turnips”. I had assumed that this was part of some sort of eccentric stage act but further research yielded the information that in 1896 George, with a crowd of 5000 watching, actually stood underneath the Clifton Suspension Bridge and caught a turnip (dropped 270 feet from the bridge) on the prongs of a fork clenched between his teeth.

Geoff Simkins

Playing this music is not quite as dangerous as catching an accelerating vegetable on a fork, but there are parallels. It's enjoyable, but challenging. You have to make something happen over and above the act itself. A good set of strong teeth can be beneficial.

But luck is only part of either story. A gap in between teeth does not a turnip catcher make. There's work to be done, practice and thought, and this recording is a celebration of that work.

Liam Noble

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released May 31, 2023

Recorded live at The Vortex, Dalston on 26th October 2022 by Alex Killpartrick. Mixed and mastered by Alex Killpartrick.
"Angler Fish" drawing by Eygeniy Zotov

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Liam Noble & Geoff Simkins London, UK

We've been talking about doing this for a long time. We did it.

"Each piece is a launchpad for the duo’s dazzlingly intuitive interplay, and whether playing empathetic counterpoint, thrilling chase sequences or exchanging good-natured blows, their orbits are always aligned."

Frank Graham, London Jazz News

"...their two lines entwine like reptilian lovers..."

Lance Liddle, Bebop Spoken Here
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