Dialogos (album)

by The Chris Mason-Battley Group

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

Key Details:
Difficulty:
Advanced
Premiered:
2015
Duration:
1:01:00

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

Chris Mason-Battley (saxophones, EWI), David Lines (piano), Sam Giles (bass), Stephen Thomas (drums, loops)

Instruments:
Saxophone
Piano
Bass Guitar
Upright Bass
Drum Set
Winds
Piano/Keyboards
Guitars/Bass
Percussion

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