ABOUT

Charlie Beresford - guitar/voice

Carolyn Hume - keyboards

Paul May - drums

Since their inception in 2010 Fourth Page have been a exploring a unique approach to improvised music. Their music has been likened to landscapes painted with music and improvised song. Drawing on the backgrounds of each of the genre hopping members, jazz, free improv, rock, and folk meet in long extended sound-scapes and improvised song forms.

John Eyles of All About Jazz wrote:

“The remarkable—maybe unique—thing about Fourth Page is that together they freely improvise and evolve songs complete with lyrics, vocals and skeletal melodies. Fourth Page takes improvised music to exciting places it hasn't really been before.”

Initially formed as a quartet with bass player Peter Marsh they released six albums on the UK based labels Forwind, Leo Records, and The 52nd. Their sound has become established over the last eleven years they have been active. The 2018 Leo records release ‘The Forest from Above’ saw them move away from a purely acoustic approach to an electrified one and with came whole new sound pallet. Now a three piece they continue this journey with a new record ‘Encore with Masks’ due out on The 52nd in November 2021.

During the last eleven years they have toured throughout the UK, as well touring in Austria and Hungary. They also had the honour of performing at the Leo Records 40th Anniversary event at Cafe OTO in London 2019. During 2020 they were commissioned to record a piece of music for Jazz South that was premiered on BBC Radio 3 (https://the52nd.bandcamp.com/track/the-signs-were-high).

Some Press -

’Fourth Page takes improvised music to exciting places it hasn’t really
been before’ (All About Jazz)

’I thought it was perhaps the sort of song cycle Schubert might have
written if he’d been around today. The anguish of Winterreise with its
chinks of light…’ (Fiona Talkington, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3)

’…tout ici se conjugue de façon miraculeuse pour faire de cette musique
entre chien et loup, cérébrale et profondément érotique …’ (Jazz
Magazine)

’Dark like a starless night, beautifully poetic, delicate, haunting,
seductive. Compellingly unique and not to be missed.’ (Jazzowy Alchemik)

’David Sylvian explored a similar fusion of improvisation and song on his Manofon album, but he failed where Fourth Page succeed in fully integrating the two forms, and moreover Fourth Page do it live.’ (Dalston Sound)