Collocutor shares new single 'Lost & Found' taken from
their upcoming third LP 'Continuation'. ‘Continuation’ is a remarkable work in
which the interplay of emotional experience and life motion experienced by band
leader Tamar Osborn (also known as Tamar Collocutor) is channelled and explored
by Collocutor. The band’s third LP assuredly strides forward following the
critical acclaim awarded to ‘The Search’ from 2016 (a work that gained the
enthusiastic praise of Mulatu Astake and Gilles Peterson among others).
Whereas ‘The Search’ invoked a journey ending in hope and
new beginnings, ‘Continuation’ looks at the aftermath of the unexpected. This
is an album about coping with grief, loss and bereavement: The music charts the
many (and sometimes surprising) emotional states encountered, moving from
acknowledgement, trying to keep ‘normal’ life going, the need to sometimes put
a pause button on and let the waves of feelings crash and roll, sudden anger
and confusion, finally to moving (perhaps with uncertainty) forward.
Tamar Osborn has led Collocutor through a line-up shift from
septet to quintet for ‘Continuation’. The modified line-up creates space for
the musicians to express themselves through the shades of ‘Continuation’'s
movement. The quintet brings in more group improvisation, based on just a few
motifs and so giving the musicians more space to converse.
Tracks like ‘Lost
& Found’ and in particular the album’s title track, ‘Continuation’ (the
only piece with 3 horns) hark back to the intricate arrangements of ‘The
Search’.
It’s a deeply personal album, the writing of which acted as
Tamar's way of processing and understanding experience and the need to channel
her feelings.
In listening truly ‘Continuation’ bares that rare and
precious gift of a morsel of the human experience being illuminated by artistic
genius.
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