One of the UK’s most brilliant and enduring jazz ensembles – Empirical – are back with a new album and some special guests. One Jazz are proud to be supporting their new release and the album launch gig at King’s Place, London in July. Look out also for an album playback session happening with One Jazz at Spiritland in June.
Here’s more information on the album and the launch gig :
Join the multi award-winning UK jazz ensemble Empirical for the launch of their second release on Whirlwind Recordings, their forebodingly titled eighth album Like Lambs: To The Slaughter. Empirical, Nathaniel Facey (alto sax), Tom Farmer (double bass) and Shaney Forbes (drums), have enlisted long-time collaborators Ivo Neame (piano) and David Preston (guitar) to lend their distinctive musical voices to the album.
A radical reworking of drummer Shaney Forbes’ unconventional long-form suite, first issued as a selfreleased EP, the album unfolds as an uninterrupted 51-minute musical story. Originally conceived during the pandemic, Like Lambs: To The Slaughter explores ever-more relevant questions around the human
capacity for independent thought versus herd-like behaviour, and the line between innocence and ignorance. Traversing the musical terrain between contemporary classical music, soundscape, post-bop and free jazz, the music often reflects our frantic, split-attention world where individualism reigns
supreme, but also represents a refusal to relinquish faith in the possibility of spiritual and intellectual enlightenment.
With this album Empirical have created an astounding and formally cohesive new articulation of their unique sonic world, made possible by the exceptional virtuosity, musical empathy and daring emotional expressiveness that make Empirical stand out consistently on the musical landscape.
The band will launch the album at Kings Place, Kings Cross, London on July 3rd.
Tickets kingsplace.co.uk