life is beautiful @flucc, 9 April

While confessedly I did have my doubts (looking back I would rather say: difficulties to connect to the style of their playing and improvising) at first, I ended up being pretty wowed by what the London eight-people-collective did and, looking back cherish, the experience even more. They brought an ultimately joyful (but not weightless at all) happening of riffs, raps, jams, spoken word, written word, dance, together in a way that I feel like isn’t a forced or very conceptual but more a free and uncensored mixing of modes of creation and expression. In any way it was much smoother and cooler (and yet much more approachable, too) than what I’m barely managing to write about it. I guess life is beautiful.