Kevin Figes - Wallpaper Music

PIG RECORDS

£12.22

Cat. no: PIG11
Format: CD
Barcode: 5024545938128
Release Date: 03 Dec 2021
Genre: Jazz

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Kevin Figes' album, 'Wallpaper Music', features Brigitte Beraha on vocals, Jim Blomfield on keyboards, Ashley John Long on bass and Mark Whitlam on percussion

The recording follows Figes' critically acclaimed quartet release 'Changing Times' and features eight original compositions written during lockdown. "A mindexpanding feast for the ears" Dave Gelly, The Observer."I was particularly inspired by the band 'Henry Cow' and its offshoots and also a lot of contemporary classical music (Stockhausen, Berio etc)," explains Figes. "I wanted to use bigger structures with sections that did not repeat, and that were precisely written, contrasted with sections that were completely freely improvised. I also heard the voice as an integral part of that and enjoyed trying to express myself through the text. Other ideas involved using more sounds (saxes, flutes, keyboard sounds,
spoken word) and inventing my own scales, harmonies and rhythmic structures." Kevin Figes

Album release and launch at The Vortex, London. Friday 3 December 2021

Tracks: More Equal Than Others / Danse Macabre / Game Of Chance / Half Sunk, A Shattered Visage Lies… / Fear Of Failure (a) / Alt. View / Fear Of Failure (b) / Song; Meaning