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Sun Swells

Corrie Dick

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2022
Duration: 00:40:23
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Tracks

Warehouse; Fingers Full of Meaning; Sinking; She Speaks; Says Who?; Everything The Light Touches; Golden Flowers; We Were Green; Light Blue Igloo; The River

Personnel

Album Description

In short, Corrie is an original, open-minded, questing talent who is extending the parameters of what it means to be a drummer. Concerning the idea behind Sun Swells, his latest project, Corrie explains: “I wanted to write a jazz album that had rock instrumentation at its core: guitar-bass-drums. Rob Luft (guitar), Tom McCredie (bass) and I have been improvising and writing together for years and years and we’ve forged a sound that is uniquely crunchy yet summery, so I wanted that sound at the centre but decorated with all sorts of elements. I basically wanted to make folk-rock-jazz but treat it how electronic music producer Mura Masa treats his tracks--chucking the whole damn fruit bowl at the thing but somehow keeping space and air in the arrangement and the mix.” The music on Sun Swells is highly unique in a way that is becoming a trademark for the highly gifted artist. Corrie continues: “This is outsider jazz; it’s extremely listenable music that has lots of very current, familiar ingredients but put together in a way you may not be familiar with. Some key elements include soaring folkish melodies, Scandinavian free jazz, 90s-kid grooves, a playful shunning of conventional jazz roles and form, stillness, turbulence, beautiful and ugly-pretty sounds, warmth, stunning lyrical imagery, climate change, feminism, and eclectic guests. It’s an album that embraces contrasts and spectra and that can be listened to in so many ways. It finds cohesion in the disparate.” Left to right: Dave Malkin (vocals), Alice Zawadzki (vocals), Tom Moore (viola), Marianna Sangita (vocals). The cast on the album comprises a venerable A-list of musicians in the young, dynamic segment of the always- morphing London jazz scene. Corrie explains: “The band is packed with prolific, special artists. The core of this group are musicians with whom I have loads of history in other groups - Laura Jurd (Dinosaur), Rob Luft, Tom McCredie (Elliot Galvin Trio), Joe Wright, Alice Zawadzki, Matt Robinson, Joe Webb. It’s unusual to have such pure synergy between so many musicians at the same time.” Concerning his newly established relationship with Ubuntu Music, Corrie gives his view: “As far as I’m concerned Ubuntu is the perfect home for this music--it’s got that special balance between supportive guidance and allowing for artistic freedom and integrity. I feel very privileged to be working alongside Martin Hummel and his team for this album.” Martin Hummel, Director of Ubuntu Music, concludes: “Wow, where do you begin with this one? Corrie is a ferociously independent breed of artist who forges his own musical path which renders his music exceedingly unique while being shamelessly accessible to all. When Corrie’s talent is combined with an exceptional array of gifted musicians--a number of whom can be found on Ubuntu recordings--the end result is a sonic cocktail for the senses. It's just what the doctor ordered. We’re ecstatic that Corrie has joined the Ubuntu Music Family.”