Release Date: 18 October 2019
Label: Babel
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5028159000677
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 18 October 2019
Label: Babel
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5028159000677
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
The OverGround Collective is an 18-piece band put together by the Portuguese composer Paulo Dias Duarte. The project is a result of Paulo's obsessive research on improvisation and its relation with pre-composed material. After shadowing many improvisers in the London scene, Paulo has put together a group of players, with very distinctive improvisational languages and techniques, in a project where he uses their different approaches to improvisation as compositional tools, creating a very eclectic musical landscape where the improviser itself is a part of the score.
"Duarte's ability to write music that is at once melodic and accessible but highly challenging and unexpected where the improvised elements hold primacy, is the key to the inevitable success of this music"
In London Jazz News
Tracklisting
Glockenspiel
Barbacana
Black Top
Black Top
Black Top
Christine Tobin
Christine Tobin
Billy Jenkins
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu