Secret Quartet
Bloor Street

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  • 1. Time to Evolve
  • 2. Bloor Street
  • 3. Moonbeam
  • 4. Unit Six
  • 5. Make Some Memories
  • 6. Salem House
  • 7. Mojive
  • 8. Changing Tides
  • 9. Ants

A great return for the transatlantic quartet, featuring Nikki Iles and Martin Speake

Release date: 1 March 2010

Nikki Iles piano

Martin Speake alto saxophone

Duncan Hopkins double bass

Anthony Michelli drums

Music by Martin Speake (Time to Evolve, Bloor Street, Make Some Memories & Ants), Nikki Iles (Moonbeam, Unit Six & Salem House) and Duncan Hopkins (Mojive & Changing Tides).

Recorded by Dick Hammett at Red Gables, London.
Mixed by Alex Bonney on 7th September in London.
Mastered by Pete Beckmann on 17th November in London.

Dedicated to Jeff Clyne (1937-2009)

Bloor Street is the a follow up from their album ‘Secret’, released in 2002. Bringing together two of UK’s finest improvisors and composers, Martin Speake and Nikki Iles, and two of North America’s most virtuosic rhythm players, Duncan Hopkins and Anthony Michelli, Bloor Street is a world class record delivered from one of the most empathic and musically articulate groups on the planet.

‘The collective spirit of the Secret Quartet is seamless and sublime’.  – The Guardian

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