ctrl LIVE: Vega Trails [UK]

Thursday, February 12, brings Vega Trails into Control Club’s orbit for a night that’s bound to shimmer.

Vega Trails is the expansive, cinematic, chamber-jazz project from double-bassist and composer Milo Fitzpatrick, known from the cult London ensemble Portico Quartet and features saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands, Sunda Arc).

Having cut 2022’s beautifully resonant debut album ‘Tremors in the Static’ as a duo, Milo now substantially expands upon that blueprint with his follow-up, ‘Sierra Tracks’, which, as the title suggests, was conceived at his new home in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains north-west of Madrid. Piano, vibraphone and strings are added to the mix.

A shaping influence on Milo’s vision for the record was David Toop’s seminal book, ‘Oceans of Sound’, and he perceived each track as an aural story. “I wanted to make sounds that felt equal to where I’ve been roaming in the mountains and forests out here, that reflect the incredible scale of the place. You get these huge views and skylines, which it’s hard to find words for.” The curious sounds that open the album, at the beginning of ‘Largo’, are an approximation, by Milo on cello, of a harmonic series that is often heard in the Sierra region.

“Fitzpatrick has almost created a new musical genre. Sierra Tracks gets under the skin from the first listen… and then finds its way to the heart.” - UK Jazz News

Vega Trails - Els

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