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BIG FUSS SOMETIMES I JUST CLOSE MY EYES

Bristol improv jazz musician Big Fuss releases a new track 'Sometimes I Just Close My Eyes' with a hypnotic video and details release of his debut LP Long Live This Queen. Primarily a live project, multi-instrumentalist Harry Irvine performs as Big Fuss in a variety of formations; solo, duo, sometimes in a 9-piece ensemble, each performance with its own unique intensity and energy, combining disparate instrumentation to create fleeting one-off swells of noise. The new track captures Irvine performing as a trio with cornet player Harry 'Iceman' Furniss and Jack ‘Bearer’ Simmonds on electronics, beginning with rhythmic pulses of drums, electronics and erratic horns before dissipating some time after the halfway mark into spidery piano lines and light cymbals. Here Irvine describes the ideas behind the visuals and how they match the energy of the music: "The music video is a movement performance by me and Eeva-Maria Mutka. This video explores creative movement and aims to challenge the viewer with intensity and vulnerability. The movement piece is split into two contrasting sections, the first being silly and erratic, lost in the frantic energy of the first part. The second is well measured and expresses a resolution that the first section doesn’t give. I had so much fun in this film, channelling childlike freedom and play. I feel pleased with how that has come across from both me and Eeva in the video and how it relates similarly to the music of my newest album." Big Fuss’ Long Live This Queen LP is out soon on Improv's Greatest Hits. -Toby Evans-Jesra

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