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- Artist: Origin Story
- Release Date: 2020-10-15
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Origin Story (formerly F-JoB) are "one of the freshest voices in Irish jazz and a must-hear for anyone who wants to know where the piano trio is headed in the 21st century." (Irish Times).
Pianist Greg Felton, bassist Cormac OBrien and drummer Matthew Jacobson have accumulated over 25 years of history as collaborators and friends and have been involved in many of the most artistically successful projects in creative Irish music in that time.
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- Artist: SANKHARA
- Release Date: 2020-09-10
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp
An album of original jazz compositions and jazz improvisations. Sankhara is a trio consisting of Joe O'Callaghan, Izumi Kimura and Derek Whyte.
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- Artist: Markus Strothmann
- Release Date: 2020-06-04
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
Markus’s mother is originally from Westport and having family in Ireland it is a very special place to him. Inspired by his Irish roots, Markus instilled his compositions with an intriguing Celtic flavour. The deep atmosphere of his music evokes images of the rough Irish Sea, massive coastal lines and distant landscapes. Emerald Green.
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- Artist: The Eamonn Moran Trio
- Release Date: 2020-05-01
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
“Sunset With Her” is the debut album from The Eamonn Moran Trio. A Dublin based electric guitar trio playing original atmospheric improvised music.
There is a retro 60s TV and Film theme running through the compositions with space for creative improvisational interplay.
The band consists of three accomplished dynamic musicians: Eamonn Moran (Composer Guitarist), Derek Whyte (Electric bass) and Conor Murray (Drums). All tracks on the album were written by Eamonn Moran.
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- Artist: Karl Clews
- Release Date: 2020-01-08
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Bandcamp
Karl Clews is an experienced session and touring bassist. In recent years he has become known for his solo bass arrangements of popular tracks on YouTube, from current chart hits to jazz and funk classics and movie themes. 'I wanted to demonstrate the potential of the bass guitar - technology and playing styles have progressed so rapidly on the bass in recent years, the bass is no longer restricted to playing just the root notes in a band. It's now capable of playing melody and chords, and can even carry a whole piece on its own' says Karl. 'However, there's still an 'old-school' mentality among certain players and listeners who see and hear what I do and have no qualms about telling me I'm playing the bass 'wrong'. Hence the title of this collection of my originals, 'Dissident' - I see myself as one of a growing number of bassists who are fighting the established preconceptions of what a bass should sound like.'
All pieces in this collection are performed using only 4-string electric basses and percussion.
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- Artist: Carole Nelson Trio
- Release Date: 2020-01-01
- Album Type: Album
- Platforms: Artist Website, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify
The Carole Nelson Trio's 2020 release was an All About Jazz magazine album of the year and one of the Irish Times best albums of 2020. With a strong focus on the environment Arboreal takes us on a trip through the woodlands of South Carlow