Label: Discus Music

このグループ目茶苦茶凄いです...!! 英Discus Musicの主宰者率いる即興演奏集団!!80年代よりマルチインストゥルメンタリストとして活動、並行して同時期から運営する老舗レーベルDiscus Musicの運営者でもある大ベテランMartin Archer。氏が2023年に始動したカルテット編成の即興グループFjallの1st音源[From The Rough Hill]。激しい形態でのフリー・インプロヴィゼーションは避け、儀式や現代音楽に近いアプローチにて独自の"インスタント・コンポジション(即興作曲)"を狙ったもので、鋭い金属音響の投下やら土着的なリズミカル演奏を一緒にした、AMMとThe Third Ear Bandが融合したかの様な響きも登場。









“Strong inspired free improv can achieve this magical casting it’s spell over the audience vibe when it works. This is the case here.” – Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery NYC

“From The Rough Hill is a thing of ancient and elemental beauty, an inland journey for the head and for the heart.” – Mr Olivetti, FREQ

“Perhaps my favourite Discus disc in recent memory.” – New York City Jazz Record


A new quartet formed with a view to making improvised music and instant compositions which avoid the highly active language of free improvisation and tends more towards ritual or even contemporary classical music . The result is atmospheric and occasionally unsettling, as the music ripples between spacious, metallic and otherworldly soundscapes to earthy, rhythmic and strident, yet melodic tones. The use of unusual/ethnic instruments married with two percussionists gives a distinctive flavour of the unexpected, shades of AMM meeting The Third Ear Band maybe...

Fjall recorded live sessions in the studio and also live performance to develop this multi layered and multi-instrumental album.

Expect the sonic atmosphere of the elemental tempered by sounds ‘from the rough hill’ (Fjall) “