The Dancers At The Edge Of Time (2015) - Greg Foat Group
Ideated from: another run through the inbox
As both a bandleader and as half of Hampshire & Foat, Greg Foat makes something that’s not quite jazz, not quite electronic, and not quite anything else. There’s a definite jazz sensibility to it, though, and this is one of his jazzier outings. Named after a Michael Moorcock book, it sounds like 70s sci fi put to music.
A smooth-as-glass rhythm section lets sax, piano, flute, and strings slide across the surface and makes for some great starry-sky soundscapes.
Tracks I Liked
Door Into Summer - not the monkees song, but a fantastic mingus-style bass-driven elegy
Hygiea - There aren’t enough flute solos in the world. I reserve the right to think that and still not want to listen to Jethro Tull.
Riff For Raff - It is, indeed, a riff, that just keeps on shaking the floorboards all the way through while everyone spits all over it. The closest this record gets to raucous.
