Rosa Brunello – composer, bassist, and double bassist with seven studio albums and a track record of collaborations with the likes of Dee Dee Bridgewater and Maurice Louca’s Elephantine project — returns with We Are Surging Waters.
The album traces a line from jazz through Middle Eastern traditions, improvisation, and dub, arriving at a sound that is multicultural and boundary-crossing while keeping rhythm firmly at its centre and an optimistic gaze fixed on the future.
Captured over just three days in June 2025 and largely shaped by improvisation, the album showcases an ensemble built on years of shared stage time, including dual drums on several tracks — a choice that gives the music the feel of a fluid yet compact big band crackling with live energy. The album features contributions from Yazz Ahmed, Tamar Osborn & Maurice Louca.
The album traces a line from jazz through Middle Eastern traditions, improvisation, and dub, arriving at a sound that is multicultural and boundary-crossing while keeping rhythm firmly at its centre and an optimistic gaze fixed on the future.
Captured over just three days in June 2025 and largely shaped by improvisation, the album showcases an ensemble built on years of shared stage time, including dual drums on several tracks — a choice that gives the music the feel of a fluid yet compact big band crackling with live energy. The album features contributions from Yazz Ahmed, Tamar Osborn & Maurice Louca.
“I am in love. WE ARE SURGING WATERS feels like a spell — magical, mystical, and shaped by the world itself. Each composition moves like a tide, deliberate and alive, carrying emotion in waves. Listening feels like riding a slow, endless roller coaster through time, watching whole seasons of life unfold in motion. The music asks you to stop… to breathe… to remember who you are. It resets the spirit while awakening the need to speak, to reach, to connect. It offers not answers, but paths — quiet invitations toward feeling, toward living, toward becoming.” Dee Dee Bridgewater
This is our Chosen One.