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Saw the Sun
The new Mab album “Saw the Sun” is the first release on the
Round the Corner label, and it is indicative of some of the underground
talent in Brighton that is fit to burst out of the darkness and into
the ears of music fans from all over. The Round the Corner label is
setting out to bring some of this music to a wider audience.
The music on this album is born out of singer/songwriter Martin
Messent’s love for jazz harmony and poetic lyricism, combined
with his ability to deliver with an edge that is more from an Alt Folk
perspective. These are real songs played by great musicians that
deserve to be listened to.
Vocals & Acoustic guitar - Martin Messent
Double bass - Buster Cottam (The Hat, Lou Rhodes[Lamb], Vanessa Mae)
Keys - Mark Treffel (The Big Hairy Band, Blue States, Astrid Williamson)
Drums - Grant Allardyce (Super Collider, Mountain Firework Company)
Violin - Mike Simmonds (Alice Russell, Natureboy, Quantic)
Soprano saxophone - Chessie Grimble (Los Albertos)
Guests on the album include Ben Lee (McFly, Heritage Orchestra) on violin, Paul Sayer (Trevor Horn) on guitar, and rising local jazz musicians Ian Price (tenor sax), Rob Heasman (trumpet) and Luke Rattenbury (guitar)
Album
launch night ~18th January at The Hope, 11-12 Queens Road,
Brighton. Full band with strings and guests from the album sessions.
£5/3 8pm. With support from The Hat’s
Dan
Clark on a solo outing.
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The History - Singer/songwriter Martin Messent met keyboard
player/producer Mark Treffel at the long running open mic night that
Mark was running, Creative Liquid in 1998. After recording some demos,
an EP 'Bye Bye Blackbird' in 2002, and gigging with various line-ups at
local venues and festivals, they embarked on an album project.
Previously Martin has played sets at Glastonbury and Bestival 05 &
06 and has written an arrangement for a live collaboration between The
Hat and the London Swingfonia big band.
Mab is also part of the Sound Tank collective which has run a
monthly live night since October 2004 to provide a focus for quality,
original music where bands play their own material and get paid fairly.
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Quotes
"...an unfussy and bare vocal strength with an acute edginess redolent
of Neil Young."
MW, Drowned In Sound, 6/6/02
"Soulful jazz-tinged experimental songs crammed to bursting point with
pop hooks, soaring highs and enough melancholy to leave even the most
hardened of gig-goers with an open jaw and a lump in their throat..."
Ric Blow, The Greys 6/3/06 |
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