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Polar Bear - Peepers
Released: 01/03/2010
The Leaf Label
Virtuosic jazz cubs Polar Bear have gained increasing recognition over the past couple of years for their fresh take on the genre. Led by drummer Seb Rochford, they feature members of Acoustic Ladyland and Basquiat Strings. Peepers captures the group live in the studio, on top improvisatory form.
For more information visit:
www.myspace.com/sebastianrochford
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The Independent“Less open space and more long melody...” The resoluteness of the Bear in their Britishness and their determination to locate their own hole, however tiny, is one of the rowdier pleasures of the age...
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Guardian“Taking their special story on...” Rochford deliberately minimised the studio preparation, and withheld the music from the band up to the last moment, and Peepers certainly reflects that freshness...
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Drowned In Sound“Their music is vivid...” We can speculate as to how their ethos and focus was developed from time spent in the company of other imaginative musicians but the evidence on Peepers leaves no doubt as to how successful this union of education and expression is...
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