Reviews - Fold 12/08
English new music composer Colin Riley first came to the attention of the jazz scene with Homemade Orchestra, a joint collaboration between him and ex-Loose Tubes soulful saxophonist Tim Whitehead. They released their debut CD Tides on the Basho label in 2003 and gave so-called music of the third stream a new lease of life. But with his newest band MooV Riley has discovered a kind of jazz he is more at home with. The debut fold sees Riley forming an alliance with Leeds-based Norwegian jazz singer-songwriter Elisabeth Nygård, a member of city's experimental collective LIMA. Songs are composed by Riley with sparse arrangements for keyboards, cello, bass and percussion and infiltrated with the kind of electronica that's more textural than groove-based. Some may consider this type of contemporary Norwegian vocal jazz as not really jazz singing at all. Are they right? Put it this way: Nygård demonstrates more of the spirit and improvised nature of jazz than your average standards singer.
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Selwyn Harris (Jazzwise, Dec 2008)