ABOUT THE ALBUM

Following their first album, Dave Tucker (Guitar, Electronics), Pat Thomas (Piano & Keys), Thurston Moore (Guitar), and Mark Sanders (Drums & Percussion) decided to “guess again.”

In March 2020, Tucker organized this group of musicians for an improvised performance at London’s Cafe Oto on a successful “educated guess.” Organized around a shared appreciation for improvisation and experimentation, that show resulted in the release of a two volume set.

The first volume is a spontaneous performance, layering guitars over complex, scattered percussive arrangements and punctuating the noise with distinctive electronic manipulation.

This new volume, Educated Guess, Vol. 2 EP, the second set from the same Cafe Oto show, kicks in with a more acoustic spirit and special emphasis on Pat Thomas’s stellar and unmanipulated piano.

Demonstrating their different backgrounds, UK improvised music heroes Thomas and Sanders, already on a few 577 Records’ releases, join forces with UK-based guitarist Tucker (a longtime collaborator with The Fall, Dudu Pukwana, Louis Moholo) and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, to create something inventive and bold, pushing the boundary of noise music towards a lush, dissonant electronica.

This experimental project, Educated Guess, Vol. 2, is now available on in both CD and digital formats.

Dave Tucker, Pat Thomas, Thurston Moore, Mark Sanders
Educated Guess Vol. 2 EP

Dave Tucker - Guitar and Electronics
Pat Thomas - Piano & Keys
Thurston Moore - Guitar
Mark Sanders - Drums & Percussion

Recorded at Cafe Oto, London, UK
Release: May 6, 2022
Total EP time - 27:00
Catalogue number 5833-2

Image painted live by Gina Southgate
Graphic design: Sergio Vezzali

CD: Exclusive Digipak - First pressing of 500

TRACKS:
1- Everything is Something Part 1 19:51
2- Everything is Something Part 2 6:33


100% of profit from the sale of most of these albums
goes to the musicians

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