The Rooms
more info and track previews >
Purchase The Rooms at
- Amazon.co.uk
- iTunes
This all adds up to pretty much a dream ticket. Clemo’s “compositions” meander into your peripheral auditory field and recede again with dreamlike nuance. It’s beautiful, transcendent and yes, indefinable. ★★★★
Chris Jones, BBC Online, UK.
Quietly mesmerising… [an] aura of bleak beauty… clusters of sounds coalesce and disperse over hypnotic rhythms… deserves a wide hearing. ★★★★
John Bungey, The Times, UK.
The results are nothing short of beautiful, with a mesmerizing quality that will get this reviewer coming back for more.
Francois Couture, All Music Guide, USA
Ambiently atmospheric and, above all things, still… the centre of the music is the sound of musicians listening.
Nick Coleman, The Independent on Sunday, UK.
Layered compositions, jazz fuelled melodies and an absolute success. [Clemo's] hypnotic blend of lo-fi jazz infused experimentation is simply brilliant throughout. Three years in the making this album may have been but it is worth every minute. If it takes as long for a follow up then I’m more than prepared to wait. ★★★★★
Joe Ward, Subba-Cultcha, UK
Clemo’s hypnotic grooves form the backdrop for rich and satisfying textures.
John L Walters, The Guardian, UK.
A sequence of brooding personal narratives. ★★★★
Mike Hobart, Financial Times, UK.
An example of hypnotizing experimentation that breaks away from the traditional. If you’re tired of the same old thing, Clemo will drive you out of your musical coma. ★★★★★
Chris Homer, Muzikreviews.com
Clemo is clearly investigating where jazz meets rock, and chill-out electronica in an inventive and fresh way.
Peter Bacon, The Jazz Breakfast, UK.
A work of restless intimate beauty.
The Sunday Experience
Ambiguous Dialogues
more info and track previews >
Purchase Ambiguous Dialogues at:
- Amazon.co.uk
- iTunes
Startlingly original writing. . . alternately hypnotises and charms. This album neatly encapsulates how even the strongest musical bloodlines are now in flux… music that creates its effect on its own terms. ★★★★
Stuart Nicholson, The Observer, UK.
Mesmeric and completely addictive.
Nicholas Royle, The Wire, UK. [ read the complete review ]
Clemo possesses the compositional vision to draw from a vast array of source material – from John Cage to electric Miles via Brian Eno – and create something both intensely personal and profoundly beautiful… a fascinating and richly textured recording.
Peter Quinn, Jazzwise, UK. [ read the complete review ]
A very beautiful CD. . . a mixture of improvisation, elaborate composition and post production shaping. . . hints at jazz, classical and World music but it always seems to sound like it’s own music – a difficult trick to pull off. But the bottom line is that this sounds great.
Mixing It, BBC Radio 3.
Plenty of crackling electronics. . . the structures are open ended and layered, and there are good feels. ‘Language’ evolves from proto-Murcof to electric Miles in eight minutes.
John L Walters, The Guardian, UK.
Clemo leads a double-life as musician and filmmaker, and his sense of the visual drifts effortlessly into his musical structures… like competing characters in a film. Clemo’s evocative ‘location sound recordings’ and his understated string writing gives the music an atmospheric sense of place… Chant’s extended soprano saxophone solos are ravishing, and Clive Bell’s unspoilt shakuhachi and flute playing adds a distinct flavour to the soundscape. This is a bold debut for Metier Jazz… an album I enjoyed greatly.
Philip Clark, Jazz Review, UK.
Fills the foreground with more lush vegetation and big-eyed animals than you would find in a Rousseau painting… ‘Form’ lands us in a magnificent downpour I have wished would never end, no matter how wet I got. Clemo builds the jungle in your head with a view of strange landscapes beyond. Bring a change of clothes, you may want to stay a while.
Kenneth Egbert, Jazz Now, USA.
soundzero
more info and track previews >
Purchase soundzero at:
- Amazon.co.uk
- iTunes
Intricate, immersive soundscapes… delights in unexpected combinations – tabla, trumpet, guitar, deep bass and vocals which swim in an out of focus, kaleidoscopic-style… Irian Jaya with snatches of soulful vocal, sounds like Marvin Gaye heard in a dream.
John Bungey, MOJO, UK
It’s orchestrated in microscopic detail without losing an epic, boundless feel. Across 12 tracks, Spevack’s rack of electric and metallic violins and Clemo’s palette of guitars, noises and “atmospheres” are ferried by a smoky rhythm section including three percussionists as they journey into uncharted waters. ★★★★
Tim Cumming, Independent, UK
A true mind-melding between strong artists… a long-player lover’s long-player, something to dive and immerse yourself into.
Francois Couture, All Music Guide, USA
All the tracks here find comfort in ambiance and experimentation yet it is here that Clemo excels like no other in his ability to combine genre and influence to create forms so musically diverse from popular recognition…” truly intoxicating… one hopes he does not stop performing or creating such brilliance for quite some time to come”. ★★★★
Joe Ward, Subba-Cultcha, UK
Hypnotic yet evolving
Selwyn Harris, Jazzwise, UK
The sheer virtuosity displayed by the players here is something of a rare and somewhat hidden quality in general life.
innerversitysound
The beauty of the eclectic offerings you will find on the CD brings forth so many facets of feelings and emotions. ★★★★
Keith Hannaleck, muzikreviews.com
Brilliant noises. soundzero is full of them. . . surprising and unorthodox.
Neil Bennun, Straight No Chaser, UK. [ read the complete review ]
Captures and captivates. . . inspiring, evocative, solemn, unique and beautiful.
Xfade, UK.
Inhale The Colours
more info and track previews >
Email for a copy of the
Inhale the Colours CD
Download Inhale the Colours at:
- iTunes
An incredibly beautiful CD which is well off the beaten track. Truly hypnotizing.
Andrew Rawnsley, XLR8R magazine, USA. [ read the complete review ]
A vision that extends to more advanced jazz textures.
Lush solo playing with a gradual, meditative ambience.
Tony Marcus, Mix Mag, UK.
Hidden depths. Virtually colourful music.
Nick Smith, Avant, UK.
Haunting and ethereal.
Hans Stoeve, Powerspot, Sydney