Migration [CD]

"This is a beautiful album, flawlessly written, arranged, played and produced and covering a wide stylistic and emotional range."

***** "If the lineup on "Migration" sounds like a dream made real, so does the music."

"The entire album is entrancing, affecting and compulsively playable. Unreservedly recommended."

MIGRATION is Oriole’s second album, a sensory banquet of soaring melodies, colourful South American folklore, lively dances and emotional ballads of longing. Music that creates a rich, emotionally disquieting world that is at once familiar and dreamlike. A world of freedom, of movement, of dusty roads and traveling musicians in shaded market squares whose journey will never end. These are songs of magical realism mingling elements of fantasy, myth, desire and wanderlust in renderings that blur traditional distinctions between what is serious or trivial, melancholic or joyous. Featuring composer/guitarist Jonny Phillips, Seb Rochford (drums) Ingrid Laubrock (sax) Ben Davis (cello) Adriano Adawali Itauna (percussion) Idris Rahman (clarinet) Anders Christiansen (bass) and vocalist Julia Biel. Tracks: Forms In Dust / First Flight / Bate Calado intro / Bate Calado / Migration To The Orange Trees / We're All Angels / Sunshine Continuos / Two Smiles / Hymn / Last Flight / Amen.

Migration is Oriole's second album, a sensory banquet of soaring melodies, colourful South American folklore, lively dances and emotional ballads of longing. Music that creates a rich, emotionally disquieting world that is at once familiar and dreamlike. A world of freedom, of movement, of dusty roads and traveling musicians in shaded market squares whose journey will never end. These are songs of magical realism mingling elements of fantasy, myth, desire and wanderlust in renderings that blur traditional distinctions between what is serious or trivial, melancholic or joyous.

The album features an award winning international line-up including drummer Sebastian Rochford, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, cellist Ben Davis, bassist Anders Christensen, vocalist Julia Biel, percussionist Adriano Adewale Itaúna and clarinettist Idris Rahman. All top instrumentalists in their respective fields.

Oriole’s composer and guitarist Jonny Phillips has traveled widely blending the musical, folkloric and dance traditions of North Brazil, West Africa, Southern Europe and beyond. These Influences have been as important as the folkloric music of his own region and the church music of his composer parents. Here both the migrations of the composer and the band members have resulted in the creation of new musical hybrids; the physical and artistic travels being inseparable.