I’m really pleased to say that, after a hold-up at the pressing plant, the new Ensemble album is NOW AVAILABLE!

The lineup is as for the previous album:

Javier Carmona, drums
Otto Fischer, guitar
Dominic Lash, double bass
Hannah Marshall, ‘cello
Orphy Robinson, marimba
yours truly, piano, compositions

…the only differences being that on one track, I play Hammond B3; on a further track, we are joined by Kit Downes on Hammond; and that Orphy Robinson plays marimba here, rather than steel pans (purely a quirk of my programming choices – he played some lovely pans on the session – the tracks just didn’t ’sit’ in the sequence!).

As it’s hot off the press, I’m afraid I can’t tempt with any juicy quotes yet(!), but if you liked the first one, I hope you may even like this one more – I’m really delighted with how it turned out, and I feel the band identity comes through even stronger this time around…in the meantime, here are two tasters if you’d like to listen:

Ahab
and
Tatum Totem III

Copies will shortly be available via the Babel website, and are also available immediately from me – please just contact me at alexander [at] alexanderhawkins [dot] com

The price is £10+pp.

I also have limited quantities of the first album available; if you would like one of these at £8+pp, please drop me a line.

…and – special offer time – let’s call it £18, to include shipping, for both…