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a story like fire - 163CD (2023)

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Artworks by Luca Jafrate

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1.	in passing 09:52	buy track
2.	cesare ha detto 08:20	buy track
3.	the huntress 10:05	buy track
4.	i would rather be dead than afraid 07:14	buy track
5.	a dream where birds dream 07:34	buy track
6.	straight up ahead 07:03	buy track
7.	a story like fire 09:50	buy track
8.	wild bird 09:51	buy track
9.	in passing 10:02	buy track
10.	a dream where birds dream 07:34	buy track
11.	praise 09:00	buy track
12.	the huntress 10:03	buy track
13.	cesare ha detto 08:07	buy track
14.	mesmerised 09:28	buy track
15.	unlaced 07:27	buy track
16.	no man's wood 09:15	buy track
17.	mesmerised - bonus track DL only 11:18	buy track
18.	straight up ahead - bonus track DL only 06:34	buy track
19.	praise - bonus track DL only 09:07	buy track
20.	in a flower's radiance - bonus track DL only 06:02	buy track
21.	film music - bonus track DL only 10:40	buy track

about

"A superb album from beginning to end." - Peter Thelen, Exposé

"Quietly enchanting, never getting too free or intense or else the well crafted mood would be broken." - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery NYC

For their first release, Uroboro play nakedly romantic, passionate music which can also travel strange and disturbing territories. Keith Jafrate’s compositions are designed to be completed through improvisation, so in a way they are never finished. But they are far from random, creating focused, narrative music that is lyrical, beautiful and fierce, passing through a range of moods, from balladry to abstraction, via sinuous, funky rhythms and outstanding solo work.

Uroboro is Italian for ouroborous, the symbol of the serpent eating its own tail. It’s a symbol of connection, continuity and renewal, processes central to an improvising band, so the name is intended to symbolise how the music happens. Keith’s compositions are meditations on belonging, on the green world, and on transcience and flight, many of them inspired by and sourced from the landscape where he lives, in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. They call musicians and audience together into a magical space, a field where journey and exploration can take place.

Keith explains the reasoning behind the release of 21 tracks, in this extract from his sleeve notes:

“After enforcing a venue change, circumstances had stuck around, and denied us the sound of John Pope for our first gig, so we got the sound of Andy Champion. The family extended. That’s why we’ve released so many tracks: it felt right to chronicle our rapid evolution as fully as possible, to represent what felt like, to me at least, 2 different bands. The two sets of music that appear on the CDs show how much our sound changed, by travelling less than 2 miles after only 21 days and changing 1 musician. The group of 5 other takes add perspective to the story. It’s proof of the force of character, in their totally different ways, of our 2 splendid bassists, that their playing creates such contrast between the 2 sessions."

Watch this video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2L7EkYa8Ys

credits

released November 7, 2023

Andy Champion – bass on tracks 9 – 16 & 18
Laura Cole – piano & keyboard
Anton Hunter – guitar & electronics
Johnny Hunter – drums
Keith Jafrate – saxophones & spoken word
John Pope – bass & electronics on tracks 1 – 8, 17 & 19 – 21

Recorded August 24th & 25th 2022 at The Old Post Office Depot, Todmorden and 15th September 2022 in performance at The Mill, Walsden.

All compositions by Keith Jafrate
Unlaced arranged by Laura Cole

Recording engineered & mastered by Jimmy Green
Serpents & dragons by Luca Jafrate

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Discus Music was founded in 1994 by Martin Archer. The label releases leftfield rock music, free jazz, extended songform, electronics, improvised music, and other sounds which defy categorisation.

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