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

https://open.spotify.com/track/1j4AsHcFSF1cs8bnoCaGNE?si=7meXPG43QYa1adxsyGXe4A

Double bass in this is sublime.
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Europe Jazz Media Chart – April 2025
https://writteninmusic.com/artikel/europe-jazz-media-chart-april-2025/

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https://vegatrails.bandcamp.com/album/sierra-tracks

Lovely way to start a Friday.

"Inspired by the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains north-west of Madrid, his home since August 2022, Milo Fitzpatrick presents Sierra Tracks the new album from his expansive, cinematic, chamber-jazz project Vega Trails.

From the epic five-minute opener, ‘Largo’, onwards, there’s a cinematic feel to ‘Sierra Tracks’, as each piece unfolds according to its own sweeping narrative, often wonderfully evocative of the mountains’ wide-open spaces, and also sometimes elaborately arranged with cello, orchestral strings, vibraphone and piano, to evoke their awe-inspiring natural splendour. ‘Reverie’ has a refrain that fades in and out, like a daydream”. ‘Els’ is more firmly rooted in folk melody, while ‘Dream House’ and ‘Sleepwalk Tokyo’ boost a sense of otherworldliness."

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Recensie: Vega Trails – Sierra Tracks ★★★★½
https://writteninmusic.com/albumrecensie/vega-trails-sierra-tracks/

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PacificNotions

Vega Trails:
🎵 Reverie

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Hudba na nedělní odpoledne.
Hudba nemusí hrát rychle a nahlas.

https://youtu.be/PKv9d1pWltg?si=M7K2H81S9k6FS5lM

#jazz #vegatrails #gondwanarecords

Nieuws: Sierra Tracks is het nieuwe album van Vega Trails
https://writteninmusic.com/nieuws/sierra-tracks-is-het-nieuwe-album-van-vega-trails/

#Music #Eigentijds #VegaTrails #GondwanaRecords

Hudba na sobotní podvečer.

https://youtu.be/br5xSJfrJj0?si=MPTq7qdtziM3Bcx4

#jazz #vegatrails #gondwanarwcords

Hudba na večer...
https://youtu.be/c5YkM374PAs?si=_oSaPkiKzmyjlUCW

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