ea balancing act with controled dynamics

EA is a large group of people including Gill Arno, Richard Garet, Andre Goncalves, Andy Graydon, Ben Owen and Gill Sanson - I believe all boys with laptops. They play scores, graphical ones that lead them through their improvisations. It seems that the bigger the group, the more quiet things get. I recently noted that also when I heard Plains from New Zealand. They have about the same size of members. It seems like some people, if not all, to be loud, or to be different from the group. Everybody waits to have that small particle thrown in and then fades out. The score, made by Goncalves, is not yet online, so it's hard to see what kind of built up is needed. In all, I must say that EA does a pretty decent job, again alongside Plains, or a softer version of Mimeo and Freq_out, to mention two other big bands of this nature. Highly improvised, not always holding the attention required, but a fine start.

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