Our New Earth

Sirkis/Bialas Iq

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Cat No: MJR099

Release Date: 20 March 2020

Label: Moonjune

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 0692287909925

Genres: Jazz

Description
"European jazz is promised a virtually limitless future if it continues to stick close to its European roots embedded in the subsoil of specific regional cultures, and it continues to be performed by bands as imaginative as the SBIQ. " - BILL BRUFORD, Liner notes from 'Our New Earth', Surrey, England 2019.

The SIRKIS/BIALAS IQ consists of four unique musical personalities bringing their individuality and working together as a team to create new explorative-forward-looking music.

The new album explores many different colours on the emotional spectrum, using some rarely used instruments in jazz such as the church organ, waterphone, crotales, konnakol, and different vocal sounds. With an emphasis on band interaction and sheer joy of playing, 'Our New Earth' celebrates music from both Sirkis and Bialas, covering a wide range of influences such as contemporary classical music, Polish folk, progressive rock, South Indian and Middle Eastern musics as well as a wide range of dynamics - from the most delicate ballad all the way to high-energy electric lines and everything in between; expect soulful melodies, aerospheric sounds with strong grooves, a full colour electroacoustic jazz with an ethnic touch and some uncommonly used instruments and sound effects.

Although SIRKIS/BIALAS IQ's music can sometimes be generically referred to as 'vocal jazz', Sylwia Balas's approach to singing is different; making the role of the voice more like an instrument rather then a lead. In her own words: "I truly feel no need to take the central spot on stage (as a singer is often expected to). I am tremendously fulfilled in being part of the band, contributing to its sound, adding different colours, sharing the joy of interacting and taking risks together." 'Our New Earth' is the second album from the SIRKIS/BIALAS IQ. In comparison to the band's debut album - 'Come To Me' - this album is edgier, darker, full of tension and dissonance sound textures. "On the evidence of this concert, 'Our New Earth' from SIRKIS/BIALAS IQ should help further establish the quartet as one of the most interesting of contemporary jazz ensembles. With music this uplifting, so sensitively and passionately rendered, it's hard not to be seduced". - IAN PATTERSON, ALL ABOUT JAZZ
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