Description
Release Date: 2024
Label: Ears & Eyes Records
Track List
- In Tongues
- For Your Consideration
- Ice Bear
- Otero Canyon
- Time To Spare
- Old News
- Interlude
- Optimal Chunks
- You Came Along
- Distancing
- Happenstance
Personnel
- Matt Booth – upright & electric bass
- Steve Lands – trumpet
- Sam Taylor – tenor saxophone
- Oscar Rossignoli – piano & keyboards
- Peter Varnado – drums
Notes
“Sun Prints” is bassist Matt Booth’s first album comprised entirely of original compositions, an outgrowth of the experience and confidence gained from years of working in collaborative and co-led projects. The album notably does not present itself as a deliberate bass player led album- there are limited bass solo features, with the focus put intently on the compositional and unified ensemble sound. All the songs were either composed or completed in the initial phases of the pandemic shutdown of 2020. The free time offered by the work stoppage provided Booth the ability to structure and arrange these songs in a more nuanced way than on previous recordings. The compositions are texturally rich and dynamic, occasionally crossing over to the avant-garde but driven by melody and propulsive grooves.
