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Meeting Ground

by Byron Wallen

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Resignation 04:11
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Zawiya 07:59
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M'allem 02:33
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Exaltation 04:14
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An evocative project where Sufi influenced music of North Africa joins with funk and jazz.

Byron Wallen is one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive. `Meeting Ground' is his first release in five years and represents a significant landmark in his kaleidoscopic career. It follows his prize winning Indigo album which received the 2002 BBC Innovation Award.

Byron Wallen's band, Indigo, features the UK's most talented players: Tony Kofi - sax, Larry Bartley - bass, and Tom Skinner - drums. With this stellar line up, the deliciously dark sounds of Wallen's trumpet playing combine with the mesmerising voice of Moroccan Gnawa singer Boujemaa Bouboul.

`Meeting Ground' is the musical manifestation of a place where the spirit and soul of a people join together to celebrate life. The music follows the history of the Gnawa, a Sufi brotherhood from Morocco. It has a traditional singing quality to it, providing an experience that is both enchanting and vibrantly uplifting.

Highlights of the album are `Exaltation', a duet between Byron on trumpet and Boujemma Bouboul on voice and guimbri (a three stringed bass lute); `Zawiya' sees the complete integration of jazz and traditional Gnawa rhythms; and `Sailor of the Sands' chronicles the sub-Saharan routes to Hip Hop.

This album won byron nominations for MOBO best album and jazz artist. Reviews from press and public were celebratory.

"British trumpeter Byron Wallen sometimes suggests an absorbing fusion of the fragmentary lyricism of late period Miles Davis and the spiky euphoria of Don Cherry. Just as frequently he will seem closer to Asian or North African music, or reveal an informed appreciation of some of the earliest trumpet pioneers in jazz, and be equally at ease playing postbop, Talvin Singh's music, or Craig David's.

An eager globetrotter in pursuit of new sounds, Wallen has developed both his playing and his compositional resources through a decade of trips to Africa and Indonesia to work with local players, and his new album Meeting Ground is an eclectic programme of grooves, Moroccan gnawa music and free jazz. The album marks a reactivation of his fine quartet Indigo, made up of gifted players saxophonist Tony Kofi, bassist Larry Bartley and drummer Tom Skinner." – JOHN L. WALTERS GUARDIAN

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released March 5, 2007

Byron Wallen - (trumpet, shells, samples, percussion), Boujemaa Bouboul - (vocals, guimbri, percussion), Tony Kofi - baritone and soprano saxophone), Larry Bartley - (bass), Tom Skinner - (drums)

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Byron Wallen London, UK

Widely recognized as a seminal figure in jazz, Byron is an acclaimed writer and producer whose original music has been commissioned by the Science Museum; PRS, BBC, Jerwood Foundation, Southbank Centre, National Theatre, Arts Council,FIFA, Sage Gateshead, Birmingham Arts, Plymouth University. He also composed soundscapes for Universal Pictures, Warner Bros and Game of Thrones. ... more

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