under-the-lid

Schweizer is a harmonically adventurous ballad player, a inventive explorer of under-the-lid strings sounds and percussive effects, and she plays Jimmy Giuffre's iconic cool-jazz groover The Train and the River with a freewheeling relish.

Irène Schweizer: To Whom It May Concern – review 2011

Taylor bookended his set with wistful Wheeler compositions Consolation and Everybody's Song But My Own, and ran from hypnotic single-note tappings against crunching chords through surging contrapuntal improvisations and under-the-lid strummings on a Steve Swallow theme.

Bath festival 2010