Artist: Flock
Album: Flock
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz
Label: Strut
Released: 2022
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Expand (3:59)
- Prepare to Let Go (4:46)
- Sounds Welcome (7:30)
- It's Complicated (13:35)
- What Purpose (3:34)
- Murmuration (1:59)
- Bold Dream (6:12)
- My Resonance (7:41)
- How Many Are One (13:48)
- Fully Breathed (4:37)
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- Personnel:
- Bex Burch - gyil, vibraphone, bass drum, shakers, bells, gong, snake drum, electronics
- Sarathy Korwar - drums, tabla
- Danalogue - Fender Rhodes, Roland Juno-60, upright piano, Roland SH-09 bass synth
- Al MacSween - prepared piano, piano, Moog Sub37
- Tamar Osborn - bass clarinet, flute, soprano saxophone, EHX deluxe memory boy
Flock is a brand new collaboration between five leading musicians from London's open-minded jazz and experimental scenes: Bex Burch (Vula Viel), Sarathy Korwar, Dan “Danalogue” Leavers (Soccer96, The Comet Is Coming), Al MacSween (Maisha) and Tamar Osborn (Collocutor).
Gathering together at The Fish Factory in London Summer 2020, the approach was to try something fresh. “I wrote texts as scores for the session and the emphasis was on breathing and listening to each other,” explains Bex Burch. “Improvisation is composition in itself,” continues Burch, “so although the music was freely improvised, we sometimes chose to stay on form and rhythm, repeating melodies and groove. As Dan commented on the day, we ‘murmurated’. The expansive 13-minute piece ‘How Many Are One’ on the album is the perfect example, a collective following and leading as the music developed.”
Other tracks include the pulsing, searching opener ‘Expand’, the taught soundscape ‘Prepare To Let Go’ and the frenetic, urgent ‘Bold Dream’. At times widescreen and cinematic and at others more tense and claustrophobic, each Flock piece explores its own colour and mood.
“Some of the band had actually never met in person before the session. We played virtually together for the Boiler Room. So every moment in this process has been a new journey into the unknown. It goes to show that we were never in control even when we thought we were, and yet we made it. Everyone came, breathed and brought openness of heart, ears, lungs and wings.”