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Most brilliant Jazz quintet Polar Bear release their latest record, Peepers, on Monday. We review it today with Brad Barrett giving it 9/10 and writing:
"It’s not merely the vocabulary or fluency [of Peepers] but the dialect and conviction. We can speculate as to how their ethos and focus was developed from time spent in the company of other imaginative musicians – it could well be essential to their consistent evolution – but the evidence on Peepers leaves no doubt as to how successful this union of education and expression is."
To celebrate the release of Peepers, Polar Bear's leader Seb Rochford has released a free mixtape of much of his favourite music from 2009, and it has some truly worthwhile material on it. Like Harmonic 313 (Mark Pritchard) and Lightning Bolt, plus lots, lots more.
Click below to stream it and/or download to your hard drive.
- Dj Maja / Cabide DJ - Montagem Da Opera
- Food For Animals - Tween My Lips
- Tyshawn Sorey - Awakening
- Cooly G - Dis Boy Pt 4
- Alix Perez - The Cut Deepens
- T Boost & Gunna D - Freestyle
- Mos Def - Revelations
- C. Gritz - Someone To Love
- Zed-U - Chief
- Ciara (feat. Missy Elliott) - Work
- Buraka Som Sistema - Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)
- Giggs (feat. Gunna D) - We Do This All Day
- Harmonic 313 - No Way Out
- Lightning Bolt - Rain On Lake I'm Swimming In
- The Noisettes - Atticus
Polar Bear tour dates:
24 Feb - The Junction, Cambridge
2 Mar - The Garage, London
26 Mar - The Firestation, Windsor
3 May - Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham
13 May - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
3 Jul - Mostly Jazz Festival, Birmingham
29 Aug - Aeon Festival, Devon
Polar Bear - A New Morning Will Come from Leaf Label on Vimeo.
Main photo by Suki Dhanda
