Cat No:
DISCUS163CD
Format Details:
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5051078005225
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
For their first release, Uroboro play nakedly romantic, passionate music which can also travel strange and disturbing territories. Keith Jafrate's compositions are designed to be completed through improvisation, so in a way they are never finished. But they are far from random, creating focused, narrative music that is lyrical, beautiful and fierce, passing through a range of moods, from balladry to abstraction, via sinuous, funky rhythms and outstanding solo work.
Uroboro is Italian for ouroborous, the symbol of the serpent eating its own tail. It's a symbol of connection, continuity and renewal, processes central to an improvising band, so the name is intended to symbolise how the music happens. Keith's compositions are meditations on belonging, on the green world, and on transcience and flight, many of them inspired by and sourced from the landscape where he lives, in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. They call musicians and audience together into a magical space, a field where journey and exploration can take place.
Keith explains the reasoning behind the release of 16 tracks, in this extract from his sleeve notes: "After enforcing a venue change, circumstances had stuck around, and denied us the sound of John Pope for our first gig, so we got the sound of Andy Champion. The family extended. That's why we've released so many tracks: it felt right to chronicle our rapid evolution as fully as possible, to represent what felt like, to me at least, 2 different bands. The two sets of music that appear on the CDs show how much our sound changed, by travelling less than 2 miles after only 21 days and changing 1 musician. It's proof of the force of character, in their totally different ways, of our 2 splendid bassists, that their playing creates such contrast between the 2 sessions."Andy Champion: bass
Laura Cole: piano & keyboard
Anton Hunter: guitar & electronics
Johnny Hunter: drums
Keith Jafrate: saxophones & spoken word
John Pope: bass & electronics -
Tracklisting
- 1. in passing
- 2. cesare ha detto
- 3. the huntress
- 4. i would rather be dead than afraid
- 5. a dream where birds dream
- 6. straight up ahead
- 7. a story like fire
- 8. wild bird
- 1. in passing
- 2. a dream where birds dream
- 3. praise
- 4. the huntress
- 5. cesare ha detto
- 6. mesmerised
- 7. unlaced
- 8. no man's wood
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Disc 2
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Made From A Broken Star
Army Of Briars
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Aeolian
Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne
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Fanfares and Freedom
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall
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Alive in the Forest of Odd
Theo May's Odd Unit
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Right Here, Right Now
Charlotte Keeffe
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Dream Feathers
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
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Sound On Stone
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
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The Exu
The Exu
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El Roi
Sultan Stevenson
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Spirit Fall
John Patitucci
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Straight Eight
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
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On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)
Xhosa Cole
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Talk to me about Mulgrew
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
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I Hear Echoes
George Cables
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Rare Birds
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
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The Exu
The Exu
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