Mountains, Meditations, Murmurations - 157CD (2023) | Steve Tromans & Mark Sanders

Mountains, Meditations, Murmurations - 157CD (2023)

by Steve Tromans & Mark Sanders

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1.	First Murmuration 04:03	buy track
2.	First Meditation 05:22	buy track
3.	Second Murmuration 08:39	buy track
4.	Second Meditation 05:49	buy track
5.	Golden Mountain 12:29	buy track
6.	Third Murmuration 07:20	buy track
7.	Silver Mountain 08:11	buy track
8.	Third Meditation 04:32	buy track

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"Absolutely a meeting-of-minds. Practically tailor made for all the Freeness listeners among marlbank readers." - MARLBANK

"The unity and continuity is part of the brilliance, and from passages that dance, to those that go to a quiet place and ponder, the journey is stimulating. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!" - Lee Henderson BIG BEAUTIFUL NOISE

"There is a lightheartedness that shines through and it is that stretch across emotions that really gives the album its subtle power. One for any time of the day or night." - Mr Olivetti, FREQ

Two mountains, three meditations, and three murmurations, interwoven in dynamic duo performance, presented in order of emergence at the time of the music’s making. Tromans and Sanders have worked together on a number of projects in the last decade, including Tromans’ Birmingham-Chicago Improvisers’ Ensemble (as featured on BBC Radio 3) and Sid Peacock’s acclaimed Surge Orchestra, but this is the first time they have recorded together in a duo setting. The session was suggested by Sanders in early 2022 and realised later that year at Birmingham’s Sansom Studios.

The emergent structure of the pieces suggested the titles and themes of the release. Three contrasting approaches to structuring music meet in the 8 tracks of an album. The mountains are stoic, grounded in the earthly elements of their own becoming; the meditations are ephemeral as midnight moonlight on rippling water reflected in the eye of another; the murmurations, fleet and mercurial, spelling mutating shapes in a vast blue sky of musical imagination of piano and percussion.

Mountains, Meditations, Murmurations has been made possible with the support of Tony Dudley-Evans (TDE Promotions) and Fizzle Birmingham.

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released July 27, 2023

Steve Tromans - piano
Mark Sanders - drums and percussion

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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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