The Elephant - In the Room

Original Cultures

£18

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: OCLP006
Barcode: 5050580811447
Release Date: 29 Mar 2024
Genre: Blues Jazz

01: Cherry Juice in a Box - The Elephant
02: Awakening - The Elephant
03: Third Ghost, Old Dreams - The Elephant
04: Fata Morgana - The Elephant
05: Hey Mary (feat. Cristina Donà) - The Elephant
06: The Elephant (feat. Damon Locks) - The Elephant
07: The Black Shining of the Sea - The Elephant
08: What? You Don't Like Beauty (feat. Rob Mazurek) - The Elephant

Debut album from Italian trio of Gabriele Mitelli, Pasquale Mirra, and Cristiano Calcagnile, longstanding members of the Italian jazz community who over the past ten years have collaborated in various formations with the likes of Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, Alexander Hawkins, Damon Locks, Danilo Gallo, Chad Taylor and many others.

The Elephant was first formed in 2017 with one of their first performance at the Venice Biennale, within the French Pavilion as part of the opera set up by Xavier Veilhan. Since then the trio has continued to work together across different projects but never made enough time to record a full project.

This changed in 2023 and In The Room presents the trio's vision for jazz with an intimate collection of musical polaroids that reflect the expressiveness and potentiality of the music they love.

The album features vocals from Cristina Donà, Damon Locks, and Rob Mazurek.

“Support!”
Gilles Peterson — Worldwide FM

“This is nice and chilled, growing on me”
Ross Allen — NTS

“Hey Mary is really good”
Bill Brewster — NTS

“Superb album!”
Quinton Scott — Strut

“Support!”
Piotr Orlov — Lot Radio

“Lovely!”
Toshio Matsuura — interfm

“A lovely exploration of chilled trippy jazz vibes”
Daz-I-Kue —

“This is tight!”
Peter Curtin — RTE