Matthew Halsall: International Showcase Fund
For:
Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra Showcase at Rochester Jazz Festival 2016
Matthew Halsall is one of the brightest stars on the UK jazz scene. With 5 albums already under his belt, his languid, soulful and deeply expressive playing has won him a legion of fans with critical praise from everyone from Jamie Cullum and Gilles Peterson to Jazz FM, Mojo Magazine, The Guardian, BBC 6 Music and many more. His previous album When The World Was One was the iTunes Jazz Album of the year 2014 and his new album with The Gondwana Orchestra, Into Forever, was released to critical acclaim in 2015 and featured vocalists Josephine Oniyaman and BryonyJarman-Pinto.
Always pushing boundaries, Halsall’s music blends his love of the modal jazz of John and Alice Coltrane and Eastern music with evocative, rain-streaked visions from his hometown of Manchester. The result is a sublime spiritual jazz all of his own. His latest album Into Forever, takes the Halsall sound still further, influenced by contemporary electronica and the classic Cadet recordings of Dorothy Ashby and psychedelic soul arrangements of Charles Stepney (Rotary Connection, Minnie Ripperton, Terry Callier) to deliver a sublime melding of stripped back soulful funk and deep, minimalist, spiritual jazz, that will take you on a journey deep into forever!
More recently Halsall has collaborated with the likes of Mr Scruff and DJ Shadow and as a label boss he has discovered and nurtured the careers of GoGo Penguin and Mammal Hands via his Gondwana Records label.
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