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Fourth Page
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Fourth Page are the glowing embers of a forest fire, a breathing, epic stillness, the memory of flames; they are intimate whispers around settling dust now that silence presides over the retreating echoes of an explosion. Their singular and meticulous music is drawn from over a decade together, honed in pursuit of an expression both original and uncompromising, stark and vulnerable, superhuman and emotionally fearless.
This improvised music can refuse categorisation resolutely only to suddenly embrace familiar forms, always unexpectedly and often mid-piece, with profound consequences for musician and listener alike.
While their individual skills surface and speak in other projects on occasion, Fourth Page most vividly demonstrates the power of our three personalities, functioning as a seamless whole, enabling a clear path from instinct and empathy straight into unknown sonic reverie and exquisite, perfectly realised song form.
They have played to many rapt and heightened audiences who can hardly believe, let alone begin to process what they're hearing, and they will often attempt to express to the band what they've not expressed before.
So, Fourth Page are a challenging band, confrontational by way of sheer originality, but also accessible and thrilling, relative to all the music, continually passing. Over the course of six albums with several labels, with two new collections scheduled for release, Fourth Page are scaling peaks of creativity, improvising a music close to ritual and transcendental, both flesh and smoke, evoking underworlds and vast chasms, describing the mysterious hopes of the heart.
Two thirds of Fourth Page are highly regarded and critically acclaimed solo artists, and all three have created, worked, toured, composed, scored and travelled, learning about and feeling for the increments of completion.
Fourth Page embodies the working methods of a group that has truly arrived.
PRESS RELEASE: FOURTH PAGE – ENCORE WITH MASKS (52ND011)
PHYSICAL RELEASE DATE: 2-2-22
CONTACT: charlie@the52nd.com
URL: 4thpage.com
FOURTH PAGE:
Charlie Beresford - guitar/voice
Carolyn Hume - keyboards
Paul May – drums
Since their inception in 2010 Fourth Page have been a exploring a unique approach to improvised music. Their music has been likened
to landscapes painted with music and improvised song. Drawing on the backgrounds of each of the genre hopping members, jazz, free
improv, rock, and folk meet in long extended sound-scapes and improvised song forms.
John Eyles of All About Jazz wrote:
“The remarkable—maybe unique—thing about Fourth Page is that together they freely improvise and evolve songs complete with
lyrics, vocals and skeletal melodies. Fourth Page takes improvised music to exciting places it hasn't really been before.”
Initially formed as a quartet with bass player Peter Marsh they released six albums on the UK based labels Forwind, Leo Records, and
The 52nd. The 2018 Leo records release ‘The Forest from Above’ saw them move away from a purely acoustic approach to an
electrified one and with came whole new sound pallet. Now a three piece they continue this journey with a new record ‘Encore with
Masks’ due out on The 52nd in November 2021.
During the last eleven years they have toured throughout the UK, as well as in countries such as Austria and Hungary. They also had
the honour of performing at the Leo Records 40th Anniversary event at Cafe OTO in London 2019. During 2020 they were commissioned
to record a piece of music for Jazz South that was premiered on BBC Radio 3 (The Signs Were High.).
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