Polar Waters, by Joshua Jaswon Octet

Polar Waters

by Joshua Jaswon Octet

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1.	Swimming in Winter 06:42	info	buy track
2.	Deception Island 06:17	info	buy track
3.	Landfill 08:28	info	buy track
4.	Lost in a Dream 06:06	info	buy track
5.	Seasick Part I: Gannets 09:02	info	buy track
6.	Seasick Part II: Swirl and Gather 03:42	info	buy track
7.	Seasick Part III: Breaking Down 00:55	info	buy track
8.	Seasick Part IV: Immortal Particles 02:48	info	buy track
9.	Seasick Part V: Bright Polar Waters 03:56	info	buy track
10.	Karner Blue 08:04	info	buy track
11.	Swimming in Winter Reprise 03:33	info	buy track
12.	Enigma 06:13	info	buy track

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“The saxophonist’s heartfelt album on ecological themes is adventurous and musically playful.’’
Neil Spencer, The Guardian / The Observer 2023

“Jaswon’s boldest statement yet – a personal manifesto for what jazz can and should be right now, nearly a quarter of the way into the 21st century.’’
Brian Glasser, Jazzwise

“Impeccably performed…a powerful soundtrack for desperate times” 
BBC Music Magazine / 5★ Album Review, Garry Booth

“Jaswon’s pan-European Octet deftly combine driving jazz with lyrical condemnation”
 Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman

“It bears repeated listening and there’s always something more to discover.”
Alyn Shipton, 4★ Album review, Jazzwise

The Joshua Jaswon Octet is a Berlin-based contemporary jazz ensemble, featuring a broad cross-section of young musicians from Europe's leading jazz scenes. Lead by the London-born saxophonist and composer, the ensemble released its debut album Silent Sea in October 2020, which was selected by BBC Music as one of the best jazz recordings of 2020/21 and received 4 and 5 star reviews across the UK and international media.

Following this release and in beginning to write new music for the octet, Jaswon wanted the compositional method to somehow relate more strongly to creative processes and approaches that had been informed and influenced by science and the natural world. These early ideas lead to encountering the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the three Science-Poetry (SciPo) anthologies. SciPo explores the creative common ground between science and poetry and Jaswon was hugely interested in collaborating with some of these writers to create a new body of work that traversed the borders between poetry, science and music.

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released June 2, 2023

Anna Serierse vocals
Joshua Jaswon alto and soprano saxophone
Marc Doffey tenor and soprano saxophone
Jan Kaiser trumpet and flugelhorn
Andrej Ugoljew trombone
Johannes Mann electric guitar
Sidney Werner double bass
Aarón Castrillo drums

Recorded by Michael Ungerer at Blackbird Music Studio 2022
Assistant recording engineer Thomas Schöttl
Mixed by Michael Ungerer Tontechnik
Mastered by Michael MacDonald AlgoRhythms Mastering
Illustrations by Cécile Bidault
Design by Rumney Design
Produced by Aarón Castrillo and Joshua Jaswon
Executive Producer: Martin Hummel

All compositions by Joshua Jaswon

Made possible with support from Musikfonds Neu Start Kultur and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin.

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