
Dialogos (album)
Overview
The music on Diálogos is a conversation between my precisely notated compositions and the intuitive processes of collective improvisation.
With influences as diverse as new classical, contemporary jazz, world, and drum’n’bass, Diálogos kind of ignores the boundaries of generic idioms.
Diálogos is a revelation. I don’t know what the language is that properly describes what Chris, Sam, David, and Stephen are doing, but they’re somehow creating new works. This isn’t ‘arranging’ or ‘adapting’, I feel it’s better described as continuing the composing process, and taking it into an entirely new creative space.
1 Fragment
2 Demonic Thesis
3 Minos
4 His Second Time
5 Drum Dances Part 4
6 Calenture Part 1
7 Calenture Part 2
8 Calenture Part 3
9 Calenture Part 4
10 Calenture Reprise
11 Inferno (from Three Psalms piano concerto)
Buy the album from Bandcamp here: Dialogos on Bandcamp
Artist: Chris Mason-Battley Group
Producer: CMB Group and Steve Garden
Recording Engineer: Steve Garden
Cover Photography: Eudald Rota
Design: UnkleFranc
Printing: Studio Q
Performers: Chris Mason-Battley (saxophones, EWI), David Lines (piano), Sam Giles (bass), Stephen Thomas (drums, loops)
Instrumentation: Saxophones, EWI, Piano, Bass, Drum Set and Loops
Released October 11, 2015