Strut is proud to announce the new album by UK jazz pianist, Greg Foat, "Symphonie Pacifique". Foat has become a versatile mainstay in UK jazz through an acclaimed series of albums on Jazzman and Athens Of The North, moving from soul-jazz workouts to library music to cinematic, haunting compositions and pastoral acid folk. "Symphonie Pacifique" goes expansive and widescreen, building a lush soundscape using choral textures, harp and tubular bells on the atmospheric "After The Storm" alongside sensual groove-based tracks like the undulating "Anticipation", the album title track and Groove Merchant-channelling "Nikinakinu", all driven by Phil Achille on bass, Eric Young on congas and Moses Boyd"s crisp, flowing breakbeats. Other tracks include a moving ... mehr lesen