Projects
CLOUDMAKERS TRIOCLOUDMAKERS TRIOCloudmakers Trio
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Jim Hart – vibraphone
Michael Janisch – double bass
Dave Smith – drums
This critically acclaimed trio with two albums to their name is Jim's current main focus as a band leader. They are exploring and pushing the boundaries of the vibraphone trio.
"London-based Cloudmakers Trio shakes up everything in sight on its second release. Abstract Forces further highlights the group’s exceptional vibraphone-bass-drums telepathy... draws from such diverse musical worlds—including free-jazz, funk, electronic experimentation, pure swing and unbridled improvisation... their music is not only impossible to resist, but gets better with repeated plays." - 4 Stars, Downbeat Magazine
CLOUDMAKERS TRIO
Cloudmakers Trio
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Jim Hart – vibraphone
Michael Janisch – double bass
Dave Smith – drums
This critically acclaimed trio with two albums to their name is Jim's current main focus as a band leader. They are exploring and pushing the boundaries of the vibraphone trio.
"London-based Cloudmakers Trio shakes up everything in sight on its second release. Abstract Forces further highlights the group’s exceptional vibraphone-bass-drums telepathy... draws from such diverse musical worlds—including free-jazz, funk, electronic experimentation, pure swing and unbridled improvisation... their music is not only impossible to resist, but gets better with repeated plays." - 4 Stars, Downbeat Magazine
JIM HART AND IVO NEAME – MULTIVERSEMULTIVERSEJim Hart and Ivo Neame – Multiverse
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Jim Hart: Drums, Vibes, Marimba, Percussion
Ivo Neame: Fender Rhodes, Piano, Mellotron, Hammond Organ, Clarinet
Over the last 15 years, both musicians have developed formidable profiles and reputations as amoung the mostinventive and innovative instrumentalists of their generation in Europe. Multiverse is their first release to document this collaboration and it is achieved with great style, colour and dynamism. Multiverse is indeedmultifaceted in its instrumentation, texture and repertoire. Collaborating in a myriad of different projects, both musicians have played in an acoustic duo on and off since they first met but it’s their collaborations as part of the Marius Neset band that has seen the integration of their talents in their duo work blossom. Multiverse has been a labour of love, an album two and a half years in the making,which showcases the musical brilliance and skill of both musicians as multi-instrumentalists.Produced by Matt Calvert (best known for forging electronic sounds with live instruments in Three Trapped Tigers,Strobes, Heritage Orchestra and as MD for Goldie's live band), the music blends a rich world of Jazz, groove and electronica with ear-catching and bold electronic textures. As Jim Hart explains “It brings together so many of our shared influences and inspirations, including John Taylor and Hermeto Pascoal as well as our own compositions which have definitely been inspired by each other as well”.
MULTIVERSE
Jim Hart and Ivo Neame – Multiverse
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Jim Hart: Drums, Vibes, Marimba, Percussion
Ivo Neame: Fender Rhodes, Piano, Mellotron, Hammond Organ, Clarinet
Over the last 15 years, both musicians have developed formidable profiles and reputations as amoung the mostinventive and innovative instrumentalists of their generation in Europe. Multiverse is their first release to document this collaboration and it is achieved with great style, colour and dynamism. Multiverse is indeedmultifaceted in its instrumentation, texture and repertoire. Collaborating in a myriad of different projects, both musicians have played in an acoustic duo on and off since they first met but it’s their collaborations as part of the Marius Neset band that has seen the integration of their talents in their duo work blossom. Multiverse has been a labour of love, an album two and a half years in the making,which showcases the musical brilliance and skill of both musicians as multi-instrumentalists.Produced by Matt Calvert (best known for forging electronic sounds with live instruments in Three Trapped Tigers,Strobes, Heritage Orchestra and as MD for Goldie's live band), the music blends a rich world of Jazz, groove and electronica with ear-catching and bold electronic textures. As Jim Hart explains “It brings together so many of our shared influences and inspirations, including John Taylor and Hermeto Pascoal as well as our own compositions which have definitely been inspired by each other as well”.
MARIUS NESET QUINTETMARIUS NESET QUINTETMarius Neset Quintet
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Marius Neset – tenor and soprano saxophones
Jim Hart – vibes
Ivo Neame – piano
Petter Eldh – double bass
Anton Egar – drums
Marius Neset and his companions present a shimmering kaleidoscope of forms of expression and influences and delight with compositional and instrumental complexity.
“If the reputation he has built in such a short time in Europe can somehow be brought across the ocean to North American audiences in a way that gives him the exposure he deserves, Neset is well on his way to being as influential to his generation as others, like Chris Potter and Michael Brecker, have been to theirs.”- All About Jazz
MARIUS NESET QUINTET
Marius Neset Quintet
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Marius Neset – tenor and soprano saxophones
Jim Hart – vibes
Ivo Neame – piano
Petter Eldh – double bass
Anton Egar – drums
Marius Neset and his companions present a shimmering kaleidoscope of forms of expression and influences and delight with compositional and instrumental complexity.
“If the reputation he has built in such a short time in Europe can somehow be brought across the ocean to North American audiences in a way that gives him the exposure he deserves, Neset is well on his way to being as influential to his generation as others, like Chris Potter and Michael Brecker, have been to theirs.”- All About Jazz
VELVET REVOLUTIONVELVET REVOLUTIONDaniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution
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Daniel Erdmann – Saxophone and compositions
Théo Ceccaldi – Violin and Viola
Jim Hart - Vibraphone
Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution is free from intent, the desire to illustrate, although it does contain a number of illusions. The music draws from the confrontation with reality and bubbles from the imagination. You don't need to know what the titles have to do with the pieces when the sounds speak for themselves.
A Short Moment of Zero G – BMC records
VELVET REVOLUTION
Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution
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Daniel Erdmann – Saxophone and compositions
Théo Ceccaldi – Violin and Viola
Jim Hart - Vibraphone
Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution is free from intent, the desire to illustrate, although it does contain a number of illusions. The music draws from the confrontation with reality and bubbles from the imagination. You don't need to know what the titles have to do with the pieces when the sounds speak for themselves.
A Short Moment of Zero G – BMC records
VULA VIELVULA VIELVula Viel
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Bex Burch – Gyil
Ruth Goller – Bass
Jim Hart – Drums
The Gyil is xylophone from Northern Ghana, where it is often used during funeral services. In the hands of Bex Burch, though, it becomes something even wilder. The energy that pours fourth is the lifeblood of the band's sound, enriched by post-punk, jazz-rock, Afro-jazz, electronica, bass and drums. The listeners are taken on sonic journies through weird and wonderful soundscapes
“Hang on, this is REALLY good!” - Gilles Peterson
“One of the most exciting young UK groups I’ve heard this year” Jez Nelson BBC Radio 3
“They were the unexpected stars of a glitzy show” The Guardian (UK)
“Funerals have never sounded so funky” Songlines
VULA VIEL
Vula Viel
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Bex Burch – Gyil
Ruth Goller – Bass
Jim Hart – Drums
The Gyil is xylophone from Northern Ghana, where it is often used during funeral services. In the hands of Bex Burch, though, it becomes something even wilder. The energy that pours fourth is the lifeblood of the band's sound, enriched by post-punk, jazz-rock, Afro-jazz, electronica, bass and drums. The listeners are taken on sonic journies through weird and wonderful soundscapes
“Hang on, this is REALLY good!” - Gilles Peterson
“One of the most exciting young UK groups I’ve heard this year” Jez Nelson BBC Radio 3
“They were the unexpected stars of a glitzy show” The Guardian (UK)
“Funerals have never sounded so funky” Songlines