Format Details:
Release Date: 15 September 2017
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4055388386334
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Format Details:
Release Date: 15 September 2017
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4055388386334
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
London-based alto saxophonist Dee Byrne's five-piece Entropi continue their extra-terrestrial flight with 'Moment Frozen' - a sweeping sequence of eight original compositions inspired by galactic and chronometric themes. The band's now-established personnel is completed by Andre Canniere (trumpet), Rebecca Nash (piano/keys), Olie Brice (double bass) and Matt Fisher (drums).
Entropi have already forged a sparky signature sound, their combined goal of breaking into new orbits lifting both fierce and nebulous extemporisation from the written page. It's an effective balance which is as much due to Dee Byrne's compositional generosity (born out of her eclectic musical collaborations in Western Europe, on route to gaining a Masters at Trinity Laban) as the seemingly inexhaustive, searching intent of her colleagues.
The quintet's two-horn solidity is finely wrought, featuring bristling unison riffs and harmonic collisions, yet Byrne's and Canniere's breakaways into freely improvised hyperspace also find an empathetic, textural connection with the rhythmic and chordal probings of Nash, Brice and Fisher.
Indeed, as Dee elaborates on the band's founding vision, "I was always looking for the intensity of John Coltrane's quartet and the later Miles Davis groups, taking forward something of their 1960s spiritual depth and energy into our own, progressive experience. Music is a healing force - I feel very much in tune with that concept. Entropi has grown together as a band, and expression is everything. So the album was created from live, whole takes in the studio - moments frozen".
Personnel: Dee Byrne (alto saxophone), Andre Canniere (trumpet), Rebecca Nash (piano), Olie Brice (double bass), Matt Fisher (drums)
Tracklisting
Empirical
Sultan Stevenson
Linley Hamilton
Lakecia Benjamin
Michael Olatuja
Samara Joy
Josephine Davies
Alice Zawadzki
Misha Mullov-Abbado
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent