Arbenz + Hart + Pursglove = Conversation
"technical brilliance and controlled passion" All About Jazz
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Jim Hart vibraphone & percussion, Florian Arbenz drums & percussion, Percy Pursglove trumpet & flugelhorn
Florian Arbenz, internationally renowned drummer and percussionist best known for his work with VEIN, is on a mission to release 12 albums with 12 different constellations of musicians - each carefully planned, delicately curated, but ultimately dependent on the inspiration that the players generate on the day.
Conversation is one such album. Recorded at Arbenz's custom built Hammertudio in his home city of Basel, Switzerland, it features two of the UK's most creative musicians, Jim Hart and Percy Pursglove. They now join forces to launch the album on an exciting European tour.
Conversation explores the realm between jazz and improvised music; the trio's sophisticated and open-minded sound is equally comfortable in either world. Vast in texture and feeling, it encompasses rapid shifts between tight, syncopated grooves, flurries of virtuosic trumpet, passages of melancholic openness and carefully dense harmonies.
This is truly music of the moment.
