Permaculture EP, by Tangential

Permaculture EP

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1.	Medina Minor 04:31	buy track
2.	Permaculture 04:00	buy track
3.	Plastic Blues 02:51	buy track
4.	Esbjorn's Song 06:39	buy track
5.	Rachmiah 06:01	buy track

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Tangential are a Norwich-based jazz trio featuring trumpet/flugelhorn, double bass and drums, formed in 2018. The trumpeter uses loops to build layers of harmony and sound, and the bassist uses the bow and effects to enhance his sound. Live, they mostly play pubs and small clubs and arts centres in Norwich and East Anglia. What do audiences like about them? The combination of pure acoustics and a little bit of electronics. Their embrace of melody and groove, with a light sprinkle of experiment. Their exploration, since there is no chord instrument, of space in the music. All given a tangential twist.

The band consists of Chris Dowding, (trumpet, flugelhorn & loops), Jake Lay (drums), and George McKay (double bass, fx). Over the past few years they have crafted a sound together and a repertoire of material that offers, as their website nicely puts it, ‘jazz for the old times, jazz for the new times.’

Permaculture EP, their first recording, offers a selection of originals and one cover that showcases their range. It was recorded live one day in 2023 in a studio in the deepest green wilds of north Norfolk, almost in the shadow of the sea. McKay’s ‘Medina Minor’ is a two-beat stomp really, old-school 32-bar AABA format, that always goes down well live, and can often be heard hummed at the bar post-show. The title track, McKay’s ‘Permaculture’, is a low-down medium funky vamp for drums and bass, setting up an extended arco wah-wah bass solo interacting with Lay’s drums. Next up is Dowding’s ‘Plastic Blues’, gently pushing the 12-bar into an environmental statement, and finishing with the sound of, well, rubbish. Dowding’s tribute to the late Swedish pianist and bandleader Esbjorn Svensson, ‘Esbjorn’s Song’, opens with layers of melancholy looping trumpet before a relentless drums and wah-wah bass groove changes the mood and underpins the trumpet and then drums solos. The EP concludes with Dowding’s lovely soulful arrangement of the wonderful John Zorn ballad, ‘Rachmiah’.

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released January 21, 2024

Tangential are:

Chris Dowding: trumpet, flugelhorn & loops
Jake Lay: drums
George McKay: double bass & fx

Tracks 1 & 2 composed by George McKay. Tracks 3 & 4 composed by Chris Dowding (PRS). Track 5 composed by John Zorn (Musical Optics), with kind permission.

Recorded by Kevin Burton at The Forge, Norfolk on 14th May 2023. Mastered by Paul Keeler. Cover artwork by Anna Hirst. Design by Morris English.

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Tangential jazz trio explore melody, groove & space in two-beat New Orleans stomps & jazz standards, reworkings of pop songs & original compositions.

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