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Monday, May 30, 2022

Flock

 

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 colors...



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released May 20, 2022 

All pieces improvised by Bex Burch, Sarathy Korwar, Danalogue, Al MacSween and Tamar Osborn in response to texts by Bex Burch 

Published by K7 Music Publishing, Metropolis, Bucks Music Group and BMG Music Publishing 

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 sax, EHX deluxe memory boy 

Recorded on 27 August 2020 at The Fish Factory, London 

Produced by Bex Burch 

Recording engineer: Mattia Sartori 
Recording assistant: Simone Gallizio 
Mixed by Bex Burch and Alex Bonney 

Executive producers: Tamar Osborn, Danalogue, Al MacSween, Sarathy Korwar, Quinton Scott 

Mastered for vinyl by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works 
LP cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery 

Artwork is based on an exclusive new illustration piece by Muhammad “Rofi” Fatchurofi.

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