*2021 stock* Phil Hargreaves is a Liverpool saxophonist and bold improviser whose music evokes the voices and echoes of his home city. In his new album, Fall Through the Infinite, he duets with the drummer of Spaceheads, Richard Harrison, and they create an urban soundscape, sometimes forlorn, sometimes bursting with hope, which is constantly inventive and multifaceted in its sonic patterns. Hargreaves’s tenor horn rampages through Reach for the Tar in ardent conversation with Harrison’s scuttling percussive words, and in Pool, it is his flute which breezes through the spaces of his partner’s sounds. In Tadpole, Let Me Kiss You, his flute picks out his notes as if he were plucking them from some pollution-swept tree. The duo find modes of artistic heaven in Merseyside streets and in Constellations of Asphalt they express it with feelings which combine bleakness and love. A powerful album this, which explores a great city of manifold sounds." - Chris Searle