Pat Thomas
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This second AG recording for Treader sees Charles Hayward passing the drumsticks to Rupert Clervaux. Together with John Coxon’s simple and insistent guitar themes, the elegant drum-work underpins four extended group compositions, containing a surpris…
Pat Thomas Introduces Marijata
Pat Thomas career began in 1969 with the Broadway Dance Band, leaving a year later to join the Uhuru Dance Band. He then played with Ebo Taylor’s Blue Monks and finally formed the Sweet Beans in 1973 where he really made his name. The group released …
Coming Home (Original Ghanaian Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1967
This Fall, Strut is proud to present the first full career retrospective release for Ghanaian highlife master and “The Golden Voice Of Africa,” Pat Thomas, covering his late ‘60s big band highlife recordings through to the “burger highlife” movement …
The Elephant Clock of Al Jazari
Four exceptional improvisations of powerful solo piano with an unusual and inventive twist live at London's Cafe Oto
Live In Antwerp
Recorded live in 2007 at the WIM free music festival,here we have Spring Heel Jack's penultimate live concert. This beautifully recorded set featuring the great Pat Thomas, Alex Ward and Paul Lytton captures the vivid and multilayered musical imagina…
The Founder Effect III
Excellent as the two quartet discs are, the trilogy saves its ace to the end, thus bringing it to a fitting climax. (Despite that, it is worth stressing that this trilogy should best be heard altogether, rather than one of its discs being cherry-pick…
The Founder Effect II
With a generosity of spirit that is touching, the three tracks on this disc are titled after deceased (and much missed) improv heroes—drummer Tony Marsh, saxophonists Lol Coxhill and John Tchicai. (Coxhill never recorded for Treader but Marsh and Tch…
The Founder Effect I
You cannot judge a book by its cover. Maybe, but music fans somehow know that expression doesn't lend itself to album covers (in this case, CD covers). Look at the Blue Note Records covers from the 1960 sixties, Miles Davis' On The Corner (Columbia, …
Al-Khwarizmi Variations
A major solo statement, Al-Khwarizmi Variations traverses the history and the physicality of the piano.Working both inside and outside the instrument's body, at times playing with recognisable musical material, at others going deep into sonic abstrac…
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Derek Bailey, electric guitar. Pat Thomas, keyboards. Steve Noble, turntables. Recorded at Moat Studios, London, August 1997.
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A new group comprising Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, This Heat's Charles Hayward and Treader label regulars John Coxon and Pat Thomas, this quartet are an explosive improvisational outfit, with Hayward leading from the backline via some stunningly powerf…
3 pianos
Three grand pianists on three grand pianos. The presence of three good pianos at Gateway Studio allows one to hear three of the best improvising pianists working together. Most of the music is three-way improvisation, but there are also three short d…
