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Jazz At Ronnie Scotts Magazine - July/Aug 2006 Required
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"Oriole is a strange and beautiful
blend of influences, a group that re-imagines Tracy Thorn
in a band with Joao Gilberto and Charlie Byrd. Brazilian
samba and British folk-rock rarely coalece so seamlessly.
Led with great authority by guitarist-composer Jonny
Phillips, the ensamble features F-IRE collective notables
saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, drummer Seb Rochford, cellist
Ben Davis, keyboardist Nick Ramm and percussionist Adriano
Adewale Itauna among others. Together they display impressive
textural variety, creating ambiences that can be noir-like
in their clever use of drifting plaintive long tones
or carnavalesque in their darting rhythms. As forceful
as it is subtle, Oriole have in the space of two albums
found something that most groups spend many moons searching
for - a sound of their own."
Kevin Le Gendre
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