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Dakhla Brass

Riding high on the wave of brass band-influenced jazz, Bristol-based Dakhla Brass are back with a new album – Murmur – on Impossible Ark Records. With their first new release since BBC Introducing & Jamie Cullum presented them at Montreal Jazz Festival in 2016, the unusual line up of four brass players + drummer is augmented with Nostalgia 77 double bassist Riaan Vosloo. Expect a lattice of intricate brass lines over simmering drums, flurries of improvisation and carefully-crafted through-arrangements. With rave reviews from the likes of The Telegraph, Jazzwise and Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 2, the new album will be launched at London’s Kings Place on the 6th October.

Run Logan Run: For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

by Chris May
October 5, 2021

Tenor saxophone and drums albums have been at the heart of London's alternative jazz scene since its first stirrings around 2015. That year, saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd, then members of singer Zara McFarlane's backing band, started tossing riffs and beats back and forth to each other during pre-gig soundchecks. In ...

Free Association - Vol.1 with Magda Brand

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 12, 2019

Free Association is a new series of collaborative mixtapes curated by Mondo Jazz in association with some of the finest selectors on Mixcloud. Free Association mixtapes develop as a conversation. The first selector sends a tune cherry-picked to suit, and ideally surprise, the second selector who then, in turn, returns the favor. An ...

Murmur

By Dakhla Brass

Label: Impossible Ark Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Side A: One Wicker Wisp; Lotus; 5000 What?; Murmuration; Silver And Gold. Side B: Insomnia Somnia; The Last Host; Zenith And Nadir; Heartache And Loneliness; Quicksand.

Dakhla Brass: Murmur

by Chris May
November 29, 2018

It never really went away, but during the late 2010s there has been a measurable upsurge of interest in brassy, post-marching-band jazz in Britain. A high-carat jewel on the London scene over the last few years has been tuba player Theon Cross and his band Fyah. Cross also brings his dextrous bass line magic to several ...