Tremors in the Static Vega Trails

• 1 Love Your Grace 02:33
• 2 Train to Kyoto 03:02
• 3 Spiral Slow 06:09
• 4 Thoughts Shifting 01:58
• 5 Closer 03:58
• 6 New Planet 03:23
• 7 Red Moon Rising 03:39
• 8 Epic Dream 06:18
• 9 Tremors in the Static 05:19
• Total Runtime 36:19

Info for Tremors in the Static

Neues Projekt des Kontrabassisten und Komponisten Milo Fitzpatrick, Gründungsmitglied des Portico Quartetts, der auch schon mit Musikern wie Nick Mulvey und Jono McCleary aufgetreten ist. Mit dem Saxophonisten Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands, Sunda Arc) bildet er ein kraftvolles Duo, das zwei charismatische Musiker zusammenbringt. Das Projekt, das seinen Namen von Carl Sagans Science-Fiction-Roman "Contact" hat (ein Buch über Signale von neuem Leben, das im Wega-System entdeckt wurde), wurde aus dem Wunsch heraus geboren, die Elemente Bass und Melodie in ihrer rohesten Form in den Vordergrund zu stellen, und Fitzpatrick erklärt, dass er sich bewusst für einen zurückhaltenden Ansatz entschieden hat.

Vega Trails

Vega Trails
is a new project from double-bassist and composer Milo Fitzpatrick, a founder member of Portico Quartet and features saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands, Sunda Arc) in a richly powerful duo bringing together two powerfully charismatic musicians. The project was born out of a desire to bring the elements of bass and melody to the foreground in their rawest form.

Tremors in the Static was composed during Lockdown as Fitzpatrick immersed himself in music that had space and sparseness such as Swedish fiddle music and Indian Classical music. However, it was only after listening to Charlie Haden’s album of duets, ‘Closeness’, that the project would come into focus as a duo, and Fitzpatrick immediately knew that the second musician had to be Jordan Smart.

“I saw Jordan play at two Gondwana Records events – in Berlin and Tokyo. Both times I was mesmerised by the intensity and conviction of his playing. His commitment to the cause of transcending himself and the listener made a lasting impression on me”

Smart brought an openness and positivity and his ability to play tenor and soprano saxophone with equal command, as well as bass clarinet and Ney flute, allowed them to open up the pallet of sound and pull the melodies into varying emotional landscapes.

This then is Vega Trails, a project that brings together two open-mined and communicative musicians for the first time, to tell beautiful winding stories together and to create something soulful and new.

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