Light Manoeuvres, by Miles Spilsbury

Light Manoeuvres

by Miles Spilsbury

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1.	Cloud Formations 05:57	buy track
2.	Grattitude 03:33	buy track
3.	Light Theme 03:43	buy track
4.	Cyclamen 04:30	buy track
5.	Water On Water 06:04	buy track
6.	Tungsten 04:34	buy track
7.	Uig 07:43	buy track
8.	En-Vau 04:26	buy track

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Debut album from UK jazz saxophonist and composer Miles Spilsbury, featuring Carlos Niño. Produced by Slugabed.

Light Manoeuvres is about warmth, generosity and openness. The music which would become Light Manoeuvres was sketched in fragments, but began to take shape in earnest during a period of living under the Marseille haze in the South of France.

The specific character and opacity of the light in Marseille inspired the album title which imagines the movement of light passing over different subjects and spaces in intricate motion. Sand blows over from the Sahara on the Sirocco wind and is whipped up by the Mistral, the Marseille sky becomes golden and vapoured, then intermittently pastel blue. That image stuck while shaping this body of work, and became integral to the function of the compositions - which act as jumping off points for the players and myself, vehicles for improvisation and gateways to something else entirely.

"Brilliant brilliant" · Gilles Peterson
"Out of nowhere Brilliant deep jazz album" · Sounds Of The Universe
"Lovely stuff, so much great new jazz coming out of the UK lately!" · Danilo Plessow

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released November 24, 2023

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New Dawn Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Free, Dancing...

Feb 2024
Light Manoeuvres

Nov 2023
Pa Flipe

Jul 2023
Tamanqueiro

Jan 2022
Natural

Sep 2021
Piry Reis

May 2021
Tustumunhos Di Aonti...

Oct 2020

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