Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View

Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall announces landmark new album An Ever Changing View, an
expansive, immaculately conceived project which presents Halsall’s signature blend of jazz, electronica, global and spiritual jazz
influences.
An Ever Changing View will be released on September 8th on Gondwana Records (the label Halsall founded 15 years ago) ahead of a
landmark show at The Royal Albert Hall in London on September 21st and UK and EU tour dates.
Halsall who has been hailed as one of the leading figures of the UK jazz renaissance has never seen himself as part of any one sound
or scene: he builds his own sonic universe instead. An Ever Changing View finds him at his most experimental yet, once again
expanding his sound and production techniques to create his unique brand of deeply meditative music.
During the album's creation, he was staying in both a beautiful architect’s house with breath-taking sea views and a striking
modernist house, where he composed what he saw “like a landscape painting”. In these new environments, Halsall wanted to capture
“the feeling of openness and escapism” and to approach making music again from scratch. “I hit the reset button and wanted to have
complete musical freedom,” he says. “It was a real exploration of sound.”

It was hearing jazz on the dancefloor as a teenager that first opened up new possibilities in Halsall’s mind and his music has long
drawn on his love for the spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders and contemporary electronica from the likes of Warp
Records and Ninja Tune. An Ever Changing View melds those forms in a way that feels heady and, at times, even otherworldly. One
of the album’s starting points was Halsall’s ever-expanding box of percussion, from congas and kalimba to various clusters of seeds,
bells and chimes, which he sampled and looped to use as a foundation for the songs – a first for him and his band. Elevating,
charming, totally modern jazz tracks jostle with deft warm magic realism; and laid back grooves with hand percussion, deep bass and
the gorgeous glisten of the Fender Rhodes meet hip-hop beats. Halsall himself sparkles, illuminating his beautiful tapestries of sound
with lithe, glistening elegiac trumpet.

TRACKLIST:
A1. Tracing Nature
A2. Water Street
B1. An Ever Changing View
B2. Calder Shapes
C1. Mountains, Trees and Seas
C2. Field of Vision
C3. Jewels
D1. Sunlight Reflection
D2. Natural Movement
D3. Triangles in the Sky

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