Sparks And Tides - Hotel Florida

YELLOWBIRD

£12.22

Cat. no: YEB7816
Format: CD
Barcode: 767522781625
Release Date: 10 Dec 2021
Genre: Jazz

'Hotel Florida', the debut album by trombonist Andreas Tschopp and baritone saxophonist Matthias Tschopp's Swiss sextet Sparks and Tides, delivers an enthralling, improvisation-laced set of electro-acoustic soundscapes

The first collaboration co- led by brothers Andreas and Matthias Tschopp, the Swiss sextet makes a subtly enthralling debut with Hotel Florida, an album marked by lapidary textures, extended melodies, and finely calibrated production. Sparks and Tides also refers to the flow of their music, which unfurls in unhurried waves until suddenly surging with quicksilver flurries. Cinematic and full of intriguing passages, it's music for unsettled dreams. The majority of the seven tracks run at least eight minutes, and the music evolves with narrative force that keys on an accretion of sonic details. "There are lots of little things like drum machine tracks, bass drones, live sampling of the horns by the keyboardist and using the sounds as samples, and also some modular synth processing of the saxophone," Andreas says.

The group brings together some of the most creative figures on the small, intertwined and fervently inventive Swiss jazz scene. A member of the R&Binfluenced electro- duo True, drummer Rico Baumann is as deeply versed in hip hop, pop and electronic music as he is jazz and improvised music, which is the terrain he inhabits with Andreas in the collective jazz quintet Le Rex.

Tracks: Review Of A Secret / Ark York Ork / Amanzi / Transmission / Drohne Über Entlisberg / Density / Beauty