Simon Below Quartet – Encircled (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:32 minutes | 785 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Simon Below Quartet’s debut album Wailing Wind’s Story, released five years ago, already attracted attention. For example, Thomas Mau praised in WDR3 “the enormous level of their interactions.” In September 2020, Traumton Records released the second work of the award-winning band, which, among other things, received the Grand Prix at the Avignon Jazz Festival. Elements Of Space was recorded at the famous La Buissonne Studio in Pernes les Fontaines in the south of France, where many ECM productions have also been created. The program Tonart of Deutschlandfunk Kultur described it as “an exciting journey that always conveys something uncertain” and concluded: “a brave and successful album.” As part of the quartet’s most recent tour, the FAZ noted in June 2023: “In addition to cunning grooves, catchy motifs and harsh abstractions, the variations of […] breathtaking aggravations and relaxing moments always inspire.“
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Simon Below Quartet – Elements of Space (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:06 minutes | 636 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Traumton
In August 2018 the Simon Below Quartet performed at the international Jazz Festival Avignon and won the Grand Prix du Jury: three days of recording at the famous La Buissonne studio in Pernes les Fontaines in the south of France. Countless ECM productions have already been recorded there (e.g. by Tigran Hamasyan, Florian Weber, Nik Bärtsch, Kristjan Randalu), as well as works by piano grandmasters such as Joachim Kühn, Brad Mehldau, Ahmad Jamal and Carla Bley. In addition to the studio days in the summer of 2019, the award included another appearance on the main stage of the festival, which was followed by enthusiastic articles in the French jazz media.
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