waxing | waning is the third album release from the Glasgow based trio Taupe and follows Fill Up Your Lungs and Bellow (2017) and Not Blue Light (2020). The band also released the EP Get the Keys in 2019. Comprising Mike Parr-Burman (guitar, bass guitar, electronics), Jamie Stockbridge (alto and baritone saxophones) and Alex Palmer (drum kit, percussion), Taupe work up a storm of skronk, free jazz and harmolodic frenzy whose closest relations include Zu, Melt Banana and John Zorn.
…The interlude subtitled ‘Stride’ sounds like a sea returning to still. Stroked percussion alongside a silvery, droning undertow provides a respite following the almost-nauseating whirl of ‘Anti-Bird-Spike-Bird-Nest, which begins with droned notes interrupted by…