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Album · 2024

Filed under Fusion
By MATT BOOTH

Tracklist

1. In Tongues 05:21
2. For Your Consideration 05:12
3. Ice Bear 04:20
4. Otero Canyon 06:21
5. Time To Spare 07:01
6. Old News 05:19
7. Interlude 02:55
8. Optimal Chunks 08:32
9. You Came Along 06:55
10. Distancing 05:24
11. Happenstance 03:00

Line-up/Musicians

Matt Booth: upright and electric bass
Steve Lands: trumpet
Sam Taylor: tenor saxophone
Oscar Rossignoli: piano and keyboards
Peter Varnado: drums

About this release

Ears & Eyes Records

Recorded by Justin Tocket at Dockside Studios, February 5-6, 2023

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“Sun Prints” is the fourth album as a leader for bassist Matt Booth, and although he is usually know for his avant-garde fusion work, for this album he toned things down a bit, but not too much, as there are still a lot of interesting twists and turns to be found here. Joining Matt are Steve Lands on trumpet, Sam Taylor on tenor sax, Oscar Rossignoli on keyboards and Peter Varnado on drums. These musicians are typical of the post ‘new young lions’ generation, very comfortable with post bop as well as fusion and the avant-garde. There aren’t a lot of obvious influences to site her except Sam seems to favor Michael Brecker on the tenor. Matt wrote all the tunes himself and aimed for a unified ensemble sound rather than just a vehicle for his bass playing. In fact, he quite humbly holds himself to just two bass solos on here while giving the lion’s share of the solos to the horns.

Album opener, “In Tongues”, features an energetic DrumnBass rhythm and closes out with the horns furiously soloing at the same time. Likewise, the Wayne Shorter inspired waltz time of “For Your Consideration” works up quite a sweat for something in three time. “Ice Bear” cools things off with an almost trip-hop styled medium groove with floating atmospheric Fender Rhodes. Elsewhere on the album the band goes traditional post bop on “Old News” and brings in pedal steel guitarist Brian Seeger for the atmospheric “Interlude”. The steel guitar is a nice touch when it blends with the band, but sometimes it sounds like Brian is in another studio somewhere down the hallway.

Miles fans will dig “Optimal Chunks”, on which Steve purposefully channels Miles’ fusion work complete with echo effects and lots of dissonant electronics. But wait, there’s more, including a couple ballads and a Radiohead inspired number with more fast paced DnB drumming and frantic horn solos. The repeating hypnotic piano line in this one definitely recalls the Radio boys. The album closes out with a 12 tone composition as Matt still keeps that ‘outside’ element alive in his compositions.

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