Fizzles_(album)
Fizzles (album)
1993 live album by Barry Guy
Fizzles is a live solo bass album by Barry Guy. It was recorded in September 1991 at Kirche Blumenstein in Switzerland, and was released in 1993 by Maya Recordings.[1]
In an interview, Guy explained that the track titled "Five Fizzles (For S.B.)" was inspired by eight short texts, also titled Fizzles, written by Samuel Beckett during the 1960s and 70s:
Each 'Fizzle' is a short compressed outburst—literary chamber music of great power and beauty. It occurred to me that these 'outbursts' could form the basis for little improvisations, each dedicated to particular bass colours and articulations... I find them to be a motivator for precise thinking and musical rhetoric.[2]
The piece became a staple in Guy's solo concerts,[3] and he recorded it again for the 2014 album Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett.[4]