Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View
Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View
Artist:
Matthew Halsall
Title:
An Ever Changing View
Label:
Gondwana Records
Cat. No.:
GONDLP 062
Released:
2023
Style:
contemporary jazz, modal jazz
Format:
2xLP
Condition:
NEW
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.”
An Ever Changing View comes in a package as striking as the music, with handmade fonts designed by Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic and the specially commissioned tapestry by artist Sara Kelly is a stunning and harmonious complement to the record's sound.
TRACKLIST:
A1. Tracing Nature
A2. Water Street
B3. An Ever Changing View
B4. Calder Shapes
C5. Mountains, Trees and Seas
C6. Field of Vision
C7. Jewels
D8. Sunlight Reflection
D9. Natural Movement
D10. Triangles In The Sky