Release Date: 03 December 2021
Label: Pig Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5024545938128
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 03 December 2021
Label: Pig Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5024545938128
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Kevin Figes' album, 'Wallpaper Music', features Brigitte Beraha on vocals, Jim Blomfield on keyboards, Ashley John Long on bass and Mark Whitlam on percussion. The recording follows Figes' critically acclaimed quartet release 'Changing Times' and features eight original compositions written during lockdown. "A mind-expanding feast for the ears" Dave Gelly, The Observer.
"I was particularly inspired by the band 'Henry Cow' and its offshoots and also a lot of contemporary classical music (Stockhausen, Berio etc)," explains Figes. "I wanted to use bigger structures with sections that did not repeat, and that were precisely written, contrasted with sections that were completely freely improvised. I also heard the voice as an integral part of that and enjoyed trying to express myself through the text. Other ideas involved using more sounds (saxes, flutes, keyboard sounds, spoken word) and inventing my own scales, harmonies and rhythmic structures." Kevin Figes
Tracklisting
Kevin Figes Quartet
Various Artists
Kevin Figes
Kevin Figes Quartet
Kevin Figes Quartet
Kevin Figes Octet
Kevin Figes
Kevin Figes Quartet
Kevin Figes Quartet
Kevin Figes
Kevin Figes Octet
Kevin Figes Quartet
Kevin Figes, Mike Outram, Dan Moore & Daisy Palmer
Kevin Figes