Monocled Man 37048 lots of ways

lots of ways

1966 (reissued 2022)

The themes found on both Ex Voto and Butler’s magnum opus Erewhon punctuate the album

The Alan Weekes Quintet and as one of the brass teachers at London based carnival band

Dr Davis switches between tenor and alto sax on this session cut for the tiny SFP label in 1965

Monocled Man 37048 lots of waysTrumpeter, producer and composer Rory Simmons summons his iconoclastic musical vision on the genre blurring Monocled Man album, Ex Voto. Here, the omni appreciative trio (Simmons, Chris Montague and Jon Scott) travel down a groove adjacent pathway in search of solemn industrial soundscapes. Simmons cultural inquisitiveness forms a treasure trove of musical touch stones, which he uses to sculpt a sound thats truly his own. Ex Voto (an offer given in