Crossing the Line, by Loz Speyer's TIME ZONE

Crossing the Line

by Loz Speyer's TIME ZONE

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Slim 6-page card sleeve (with a spine and yet no plastic parts) - artistic design complete with photos, of Cuba and band, collage by the artist in background, sleeve notes of a personal/family kind by the composer and even a painting. With, of course, a fantastic album of highly individual Cuban-Jazz by Loz Speyer's Time Zone

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Two albums launched together at Rich Mix, London 2011: Time Zone with Ewegbemi Batá Ensemble played music from the Evocación album, like this!: youtu.be/hllPgVCXfco. The 2 CDs come in matching card folders, artfully designed with photos and notes revealing some of the stories behind the music. A tune from Time Zone's "Bilingual" also appears on the Cuban album, in different key and tempo.

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1.	Conjunto 05:52	buy track
2.	Lista de Espera 07:22	buy track
3.	Bilingual 08:08	buy track
4.	Snakepath 07:39	buy track
5.	Miracle Maricel 07:58	buy track
6.	Fine Line 06:22	buy track
7.	International Dateline 10:19	buy track

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“Imaginative fusions of Cuban dance forms and pungent contemporary jazz. Martin Hathaway's soulful alto sax sound and Speyer's trumpet phrasing (like Miles Davis in a salsa brass section) make a flexible front line... a restless, New York-downtown contemporary-jazz feel blends effectively with the intricate Cuban grooves. A typically shrewd fusion of the time senses of two quite different cultures.” - John Fordham, the Guardian

“This lively, vigorous album begins with an infectiously robust but subtle tune 'Conjunto' ... and concludes with a wry look at the vicissitudes of intercontinental telecommunications, complete with Cuban dialling tones... A warm, celebratory album from a band that clearly relishes the material with which a skilful composer has provided them." - Chris Parker, London Jazz blogspot

From the sleeve notes: "Album 'Crossing the Line' is like a bridge made of music, spanning the distance between two very different cultures, represented by two cities, London and Santiago de Cuba. My family and I have spent some years now travelling the space between these two places, frequently crossing hidden lines and hazy boundaries, each of us in many and various ways.

'Bilingual' is for my step daughter, whose first time outside Cuba was when she came to live in London, age 11. She went into the local primary school and picked up English from scratch over a few months, complete with various East London accents...

'International Dateline' speaks for itself, my voice recorded live with the band... complete with real and telecom voices recorded over phone lines to Cuba, in the days before Cuba got mobiles, when we were 5000 miles apart." - Loz Speyer 2010

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released October 10, 2011

LOZ SPEYER'S TIME ZONE
Loz Speyer – trumpet, flugelhorn
Martin Hathaway - alto sax, bass clarinet
Stefano Kalonaris – guitar, trés
Davide Mantovani –double bass
Simon Pearson – drums
Maurizio Ravalico – congas

Recorded 28-29/01/2010 by Nick Taylor at Porcupine Studio, London
Mixed by Nick Taylor. Mastered by Peter Beckmann
Album release 10/10/11 on Spherical Records © 2011
Compositions by Loz Speyer

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