“Motion Unfolding” Jazz Magazine/Jazzman No. 630, October 2011

Elected “Revelation!” award. Review by Franck Bergerot I wrote a review of “Alba Lux”, this quartet’s first album, in December 2008 in which I had expressed the joy I experienced in rediscovering the same feelings I had had 25 years earlier when first listening to Marc Ducret, Malo Vallois and Serge Lazarevitch. Three years on, I find this music has matured, ripened... Read More

“Motion Unfolding” Jazzthing November 2011

British guitarist, living in paris, Tam de Villiers is not only an outstanding guitarist, but also a poet with originality. Two of his texts, which are interpreted here by the Belgian singer David Linx, opens and closes the album “Motion Unfolding”. From references to antiquity, to mythical figures,  there are bewitching words – some of which seem familiar –... Read More

“Motion Unfolding” Les Dernières Nouvelles du Jazz review

Review by Jérôme Gransac After Alba Lux in 2008, Tam de Villiers Quartet reiterates the experience with Motion Unfolding. The quartet has matured incontestably its music, and the guitarist and composer puts to good use all his apprenticeship done during his diverse experiences spun out in the clubs of Paris, from the smallest, little-known and often ephemeral, to the grander... Read More

“Motion Unfolding” Batteur Magazine, October 2011

Reviewed by Laurent Paranthoën After “Alba Lux” released in late 2008, here is the second album of this young British guitarist living in France for almost 10 years. With a rich experience gained over many collaborations, he delivers us a powerful music, rooted in the influences of his time, thanks to an astonishing maturity in his writing. Guitaristic influences are... Read More