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10/05/2006 Kerstan Mackness - Timeout
Guitarist Jonny Phillips might just be the next big star
to emerge from the F-IRE Collective,the loose confederation
of forward-looking musicians that include the Mercury-nominated
Polar Bear and the hip-punk Jazz outfit Acoustic Ladyland,
But while those bands embrace electronica, funk and rock
influences, Phillips who played on the Polar Bear album
and who regularly collaborates with folky songstress
Julia Biel) is a different beast altogether. His music
is a pastoral, impressionistic mix of soaring melodies
and South American folklore that strives to create an
aural form of magical realism. Dreamlike and beautiful,
it sounds simultaneously contemporary and yet centuaries
old.
His band Oriole are something of a F-IRE collective supergroup
with big haired drummer Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear,
Acoustic Ladyland, Fulbourn, Taversham), cellist Ben Davis
(Julia Biel, Django Bates), Lee Konitz-ish saxophonist
Ingrid Laubrock (Monica Vasconcellos), claranetist Idris
Rahman (Soothsayers), Danish bass player Anders Christensen
(Paul Motion) and Brazilian Percussionist Adriano Adawali
Itauna.
Their new Album 'Migration' is an early contender for jazz
release of the year, a sublime, slightly unsettling but
emotionally rewarding work that draws on folk, north Brazilian,
West African and Mediterranean music. Like the Norwegian
pianist Christian Wallumrod, Phillips conjures music that
is quietly intense, beguilingly beautiful and full of pleasingly
robust tunes that stay with you long after you hear them.
Expect waltzes, gentle samba, persuasive grooves, poignant
themes and uplifting melodies that'll make you smile, think
and want to dance.
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