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    The five album tracks recorded 2010 and 2011, on CD in a compact card envelope (nothing fancy, posts like a letter) with carefully designed artwork. Buying CD also gives you the digital release which includes the 31 minute bonus track "Open Territory" recorded 2009, that wouldn't fit on the CD!

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1.
Reduce till Ready 09:50
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2.
Rich Seam 04:35
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3.
Between a Rock 13:21
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4.
Traces 08:46
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5.
Never Stop! 24:08
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OPEN TERRITORY

Over the three years 2009 to 2011, Tony, Olly and myself met somewhat regularly at my place and played music together. As a TRIO we never played to a live audience, but without making any plans or discussing it much, we recorded everything we did.

It was only during the 2021 lockdown that I finally sat down to listen through to what amounted to about nine hours' worth of music. There were some gems in there waiting to be discovered! - eventually between Olly and myself we made this selection.

A trio of trumpet, bass and drums is a truly elemental lineup - it’s like three points of a triangle pinning out a central space where anything can happen. There’s a big space between trumpet and bass that can be harmonised by the drums… and the basic elements of music are all in there. It's a format that I keep returning to, with or without compositions framing the improvisation - and always the key is that open sound.

In Freetrio there was never any pre-conceived material, just spontaneous interaction, each time the three of us discovering a musical form as it evolved. We had a good time with this - and we hope you will too.

Best wishes, Loz

The Guardian obituary to Tony Marsh is here www.theguardian.com/music/2012/apr/23/tony-marsh

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released March 11, 2022

FREETRIO
Loz Speyer - trumpet, flugelhorn
Olly Blanchflower - double bass
Tony Marsh - drums

ALBUM - OPEN TERRITORY
1/ (9:50) . . . Reduce Till Ready . . . 24/06/11
2/ (4:35) . . . Rich Seam . . . . . . . . . 24/06/11
3/ (13:21) . . Between a Rock . . . . 21/07/10
4/ (8:46) . . . Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . 12/12/11
5/ (24:08) . . Never Stop! . . . . . . . . 12/12/11

BONUS TRACK
6/ (31:37) . . Open Territory . . . . . . 09/05/09


Compositions by Speyer, Marsh, Blanchflower
Four track digital home recordings
Mastered 2021 on CloudBounce
Spherical Records SPR006

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