Empirical | zh

1) Free-noise group from New Zealand (members: Alie McPherson, Marcel Bear, Rosy Parlane). Released 8" lathe-cut on Crawlspace Records (1998), one 3" CDR on PseudoArcana, and was also on Le Jazz Non compilation CD, released by Bruce Russell's Corpus Hermiticum label, 1996. One song (Untitled) is also in Fit For Kings - A Compilation Of Peripheral New Zealand Music Series II CD, released by Crawlspace Records, 2000. 2) Nathaniel Facey (alto sax); Lewis Wright (vibes); Tom Farmer (double bass); Shaney Forbes (drums/percussion). Empirical's smart post-bop style has drawn admiring notices on both sides of the Atlantic. Their debut recording went...