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Django Bates: Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze)

By Chris May
October 30, 2005
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Django Bates: Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze)

Ten years on from its original release, digitally remastered in a handsome Winter & Winter edition, Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze) isn't so much a candidate for re-evaluation as potent testimony to the controversy that surrounded maverick British bandleader and composer Django Bates in '95. The unfettered idiosyncrasy of the album—overflowing with new ideas and previously uncharted vistas—sums up much,

and the parts themselves continue to make for enthralling listening.

Track Listing

You Can't Have Everything; The Loneliness Of Being Right; ...And A Golden Pear; New York, New York; Early Bloomer; X = Thingys x 3 - MF; Fox Across The Road; Powder Room Collapse; Kookaburra Laughed; You Can't Have Everything Reprise.

Personnel

Django Bates

piano

Julian Arguelles: baritone and soprano saxophones; Iain Ballamy: soprano, alto and tenor saxophones; Chris Batchelor: trumpet; Django Bates: keyboards, piano, Eb peck horn; Roland Bates: trombone; Steve Buckley: soprano and alto saxophones, tin whistle; Martin France: drums, percussion; Sid Gauld: trumpet; Stuart Hall: guitar, violin, banjo; Richard Henry: bass trombone; Sarah Homer: clarinet, bass clarinet; Dave Laurence: french horn; Mark Lockheart: tenor saxophone, clarinet; Michael Mondesir: bass; Eddie Parker: flute, bass flute; Barak Schmool: tenor saxophone, piccolo flute; Christine Tobin: solo vocals; Sarah Waterhouse: tuba.

Album information

Title: Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze) | Year Released: 2005 | Record Label: Winter & Winter

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Sala Ziemi MTP - Poznan, Poland

Sala Ziemi Mtp
POZNAN, Poland

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