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Andi Chorley Sep 8, 2025

Ended the weekend and started the week after a swim with Tremors in the Static by Vega Trails, released on Gondwana Records in 2022.

Vega Trails is a new project from double-bassist and composer Milo Fitzpatrick, a founder member of Portico Quartet, who has also performed with the likes of Nick Mulvey and Jono McCleary and features saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands, Sunda Arc) in a richly powerful duo bringing together two powerfully charismatic musicians. The project which takes its name from Carl Sagan's science fiction novel 'Contact' (a book about signals of new life detected from the Vega system) and was born out of a desire to bring the elements of bass and melody to the foreground in their rawest form and Fitzpatrick explains that he deliberately chose the stripped back approach...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Fmg9BWrBw&list=RDk2Fmg9BWrBw&start_radio=1

#vegatrails #MiloFitzpatrick #PorticoQuartet #JordanSmart #MammalHands #SundaArc #jazz #ambientjazz #GondwanaRecords

zeruch Jan 9, 2023

#SundaArc is a new find for me, but via an old route, the Gondwana label that also is the home of Gogo Penguin, Jasmine Myra, Portico Quartet, and Mammal Hands... the aesthetic is a more processed but not sterile sound. It hints at #Fripp & #Eno, #Basinski, #JonHassell, #Vangelis and even #DougWimbish‘s ambient dub-EDM in places, but isn’t trying to mimic any of those things."

https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/sounds-that-have-been-made-ep-36-sunda-arc-distant-siren/