Matt Carmichael - Marram

 

Glasgow-based saxophonist/composer releases second album!

Songs influenced by jazz as much as folk music

Limited edition yellow colored vinyl

Music encapsulates the openness and emotiveness of the Scottish coastal landscape

For his second album, Marram, Matt Carmichael, a saxophonist and composer, brings the improvisation of folk music to a jazz landscape.

Marram takes its influence from the drama, moods and expansiveness of the coastal imagery of Carmichael's native Scotland. But rather than the music being inspired by the landscapes, it's more the other way round, where the image of the sea encapsulates the openness and emotiveness Matt is trying to communicate in his music. The album also talks about escapism, of flow and the push and pull or drama that the sea evokes. For Carmichael, his music "wants to have a transportive element...the sea can be calm, but can also be tempestuous, a space where lots of different moods, emotions and energies can be conveyed, lots of different elements of nature found."

Marram is Carmichael's first album with the Edition label and follows on from his highly successful self-released debut "Where Will The River Flow." Released in March 2021 to critical acclaim throughout Europe including a 5-star review in BBC Music Magazine, the bold and commanding debut gained more than 2 million streams and was long-listed for the multi-genre Scottish Album of the Year Award. In Oct 2021 it prompted an invitation from Grammy Award-winning WDR Big Band to be a guest soloist performing Bob Mintzer's arrangements of Matt's music.

 

1. The Far Away Ones

2. Dune

3. Road to the Sea

4. Waves

5. Marram

6. Horizon

7. There Will Be Better Days

8. On The Gloaming Shore, Pt. 1

9. On The Gloaming Shore, Pt. 2

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