Taking the electric music of Miles Davis as its starting point, Anthropology Band is about finding the atmosphere through a deep rhythm, a searing blues run, a delicate melody, or a cascading solo statement. The music is as simple as possible – often driven by the bassline – and the structures loose, to enable this who’s who of UK creative musicians to let the music breathe in a different way each time it is played. There are multiple chordal instruments in the centre of the sound, allowing each soloist to sit on a kaleidoscopic wave of intercrossing figures which push the music forward.
Anthropology's debut album is available now from Discus Music as a double CD with two versions of the music – one by the stripped down concert group, and the other version adding an adventurous 11 piece horn section to the basic tracks. LISTEN HERE.
