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Le saxophoniste et flûtiste Chip Wickham présente Cloud 10, son album très émouvant. Chip Wickham est un musicien et producteur de jazz qui partage son temps entre l'Espagne, le Royaume-Uni et le Moyen-Orient. Originaire de Brighton, Chip a étudié à Manchester et s'est impliqué dans le jazz et la soul britanniques des années 2000. Travaillant avec des artistes comme The Pharcyde, The New Mastersounds et Nightmares On Wax ainsi que le Gondwana Orchestra de Matthew Halsall. Sa relation avec Gondwana Records remonte au tout début alors qu'il jouait sur le premier album de Halsall en 2008, Sending My Love. Cloud 10 est son premier album pour Gondwana Records (après un 12" de reprises de Lonnie Liston Smith en mai) et c'est un album merveilleux, intemporel, lyrique, de jazz percutant, soul, spirituel et de hard-bop modal avec une sonorité typiquement britannique - portée par le travail d’une flûte habilement funk et du ténor percutant de Chip, soutenu par son son désir ardent de se connecter avec l'auditeur à un niveau plus profond. Cloud 10 met en vedette le pianiste Phil Wilkinson, Ton Risco, le bassiste Sneaky et le batteur Jon Scott ainsi que la harpiste Amanda Whiting et le percussionniste Jack McCarthy que Chip a rencontré en tournée dans l'Orchestre du Gondwana, et le rompettiste irlandais Eoin Grace. L'album a été enregistré dans les légendaires Estudios Brazil entièrement analogiques à Madrid.

We Jazz Records presents "Pu:", the boundary-breaking solo debut of bass player Ville Herrala, to be released on 21 February 2020. Herrala utilises only the double bass but approaches the instrument from various different perspectives. The end result is an inspired set of 14 miniatures, each pushing the concept forward in a highly personal way.The first single "Pu: 12" presents a rhythmic approach with echoes of from the world of minimal classical music and electronic music. Bowed tracks such as "Pu: 2" offer another perspective, as does the second single "Pu: 10", going back to the essence of the instrument and opening new doors while doing so. Each of the tracks is a compact musical adventure unto its own.Ville Herrala will perform live in Helsinki on 19 March, supporting the Kenny Barron & Dave Holland Trio at a We Jazz presented event at Savoy Theatre and at Turku's Bar Ö on 5 March.Ville Herrala (b. 1979) is one of the most higly-regarded bass players working in the Finnish scene. He's known from the ranks of such top ensembles as PLOP, Jukka Perko Jazztet, U-Street All Stars, Jukka Eskola Orquesta Bossa and UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, to name but a few.

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Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet has always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group created their own singular, cinematic sound over the course of three studio albums, from their 2007 breakthrough ‘Knee-Deep in the North Sea’, and 2010 John Leckie produced ‘Isla’, to the self titled record ‘Portico Quartet’ in 2012. Now rebooted as Portico Quartet after a brief spell as the three-piece Portico, the group are set to release their fourth studio album Art In The Age Of Automation this August on Manchester’s forward thinking indy jazz and electronica label Gondwana Records. It’s an eagerly anticipated return, with the band teasing both a return to their mesmeric signature sound and fresh new sonic departures in their new music. So much so that their four-night run at Archspace E8 (June 22-25) sold out in less than an hour as fans from around the world scrambled for tickets to hear the return of Portico Quartet.Matthew Halsall founded Gondwana Records in 2008. An independent label based in Manchester, it's gone on to release music by Dwight Trible, GoGo Penguin, Nat Birchall and Halsall himself. The label has won acclaim across the world and can claim the likes of Gilles Peterson, Mr Scruff and Bonobo as fans. Next up are the Mercury Prize nominated Portico Quartet with their powerful new album Art In The Age Of Automation: where they're now rebooted as a quartet after a brief spell as the three-piece Portico. They have always been an impossible band to pin down; taking in aspects of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism but the group have undoubtedly crafted their own singular sound. There's the dashing and cinematic bliss of "Objects To Place In A Tomb" and the hypnotic live drum and bass of "A Luminous Beam" amongst other highlights.

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