MAGMA

TRACKLISTING


A1. Black Flower - Magma
A2. Black Flo wer - O Fogo
A3. Black Flower - The Light
A4. Black Flower - Half Liquid< br>B1. Black Flower - Deep Dive Down
B2. Black Flower feat. Meskerem Mees - M orning In The Jungle
B3. Black Flower - The Forge
B4. Black Flower - Blue Speck





INFO


Five-piece hybrid jazz outfi t Black Flower are set to release new album 'Magma' on the 28th January via the groove-obsessed Belgian label, Sdban Ultra.

Piloted by Brussels-based saxophonist/flutist/composer Nathan Daems (Echoes of Zoo, Dijf Sanders), the qu intet is a vibrant, hypnotic mix of Ethio jazz, afrobeat, psychedelia and orient al influences, inspired by Mulatu Astatke, Fela Kuti and varied western musical traditions.

Black Flower is a band at the peak of their creative powe rs. Having received glowing praise for the 2019 album 'Future Flora' from Mojo, Songlines, BBC Radio 6 Music's Gilles Peterson, BBC Radio 3's Music Planet, Worl dwide FM and Jazz FM among others, forthcoming album 'Magma' sees Black Flower e mbrace new synth and organ sounds from the band's most recent recruit, Karel Cue lenaere. His influence can be heard from the outset - his keys adding a swirling , mischievousness to album opener and title track 'Magma'. Elsewhere, the shuffl ing drum patterns and flighty, flute-propelled 'O Fogo' are rich in texture and flow.

Driving rhythms and Eastern influenced melodies serve as a rich source of pleasure that, like magma, become real and solid when finding its way to the surface. It's the perfect metaphor for this album's creational process. The pulsating, trance-inducing 'Deep Dive Down' continues the joyous process whi le singer-songwriter Meskerem Mees (winner of The Montreux Jazz Talent Award 202 1) adds, her clear-as-spring-water vocals to the celestial 'Morning in the Jungl e'.

With the much-trusted Frederik Segers on production and London-ba sed visual virtuoso Raimund Wong (Total Refreshment Centre) on artwork duties, i t all adds up to the psychedelic and exploratory identity of the band and are ke y elements that helped 'Magma' in its ascension from deep down up to the surface . A creative process solidified into vinyl, just as magma into rock.

Fellow musicians and spiritual henchmen are Jon Birdsong (dEUS, Beck, Calexico) on cornet, Simon Segers (Absynthe Minded, De Beren Gieren, MDCIII) at the drums, Filip Vandebril (Lady Linn, The Valerie Solanas) at the bass and Karel Cuelenae re (John Ghost) on keys.