Year: 2024
Time: 58:41
File: MP3 @ 128K/s
Size: 53,8 MB
Art: Front
(3:09) 1. Tributaries
(9:16) 2. Pilgrimage Open Water
(0:43) 3. Flow
(7:25) 4. Open Water
(5:36) 5. Song For Biko
(5:11) 6. Weighless
(7:56) 7. Hunter's Moon
(5:55) 8. Hirundelle
(4:03) 9. World Beyond World
(9:24) 10. Evening Sun
f the Open Water album contains some fine compositions and excellent playing from all, then the group manage to eclipse their own achievements with the remarkable, and stunningly beautiful, Meanders in the South Downs. In tandem with the South Downs Ensemble, the Full Circle Quartet revisit ten of the compositions from their The South Downs Suite album with expanded arrangements that bring a new glow to the music, along with new pieces and poetry written and read by Mandy Pannett.
The music is marvellously conceived as a suite that plays over 2CDs over a two-hour duration that is totally absorbing. The arrangements are full of detail, and the sense of familiarity comforting as one recognises tune heard from the Quartet’s 2023 album, but Terry Pack cannot help but get up to mischief in working elements of one composition into another. One of pianist Josh Peach’s compositions gets two outings, firstly as a ‘Ravillious’ which is a ballad version of his tune ‘Selborne’ and then as an up tempo number under its original title.
It is often the little touches, often subtle that make the music such delight. Josephine Davies’s ‘The Dance of the Dragonfly’ with the original quartet arrangement enhanced by additional woodwinds as the piece winds down.
Throughout the two discs there are readings of original poetry by Mandy Pannett recounting the history of the South Downs that bring an additional dimension to the music that add immeasurably to the enjoyment of this exceptional release.
https://jazzviews.net/the-full-circle-quartet-open-water-the-full-circle-quartet-the-south-downs-ensemble-with-mandy-pannett-meanders-in-the-south-downs/
Personnel: Josephine Davies (Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Voice); Joss Peach (Piano, Percussion and Voice); Terry Pack (Double Bass and Voice); Angus Bishop (Drums, Percussion and Voice)
The music is marvellously conceived as a suite that plays over 2CDs over a two-hour duration that is totally absorbing. The arrangements are full of detail, and the sense of familiarity comforting as one recognises tune heard from the Quartet’s 2023 album, but Terry Pack cannot help but get up to mischief in working elements of one composition into another. One of pianist Josh Peach’s compositions gets two outings, firstly as a ‘Ravillious’ which is a ballad version of his tune ‘Selborne’ and then as an up tempo number under its original title.
It is often the little touches, often subtle that make the music such delight. Josephine Davies’s ‘The Dance of the Dragonfly’ with the original quartet arrangement enhanced by additional woodwinds as the piece winds down.
Throughout the two discs there are readings of original poetry by Mandy Pannett recounting the history of the South Downs that bring an additional dimension to the music that add immeasurably to the enjoyment of this exceptional release.
https://jazzviews.net/the-full-circle-quartet-open-water-the-full-circle-quartet-the-south-downs-ensemble-with-mandy-pannett-meanders-in-the-south-downs/
Personnel: Josephine Davies (Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Voice); Joss Peach (Piano, Percussion and Voice); Terry Pack (Double Bass and Voice); Angus Bishop (Drums, Percussion and Voice)
Open Water
