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The double bass has always been close to Gavin Bryars' heart.
His own instrument, it has also featured strongly in his music for
other players - as in The Church Closest to the Sea, written for
Mr McFall's Chamber and their bassist Rick Standley. Bryars' music
straddles worlds: classical and jazz, composition and improvisation,
the works on this disc moving between the lushly sensuous
and the coolly laid-back as they meditate on geographical and
emotional borderlands.
‘ I believe the group – in
what it does, and in what
it represents – is potentially
the most important single
development on the Scottish
musical scene in a long time’
— Michael Tumelty, The Herald,
on Mr McFall’s Chamber
‘ He allows you to witness new
wonders in the sounds around
you by approaching them from
a completely new angle’
— Michael Ondaatje on Gavin Bryars
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