Jazz @ Heart: Harry Christelis Quartet

Doors 7pm. Music 7.15pmGuitarist and composer Harry Christelis presents his new album, Preserving Fictions - an exploration of how music and art can serve as a means to preserve and document the seeming truths we see, hear, feel, and experience every day. This record sees Christelis delve deeper into a sound world that has become synonymous with his name, fusing elements of jazz and folk traditions with ambient drones and delicate electronic textures to create a truly immersive listening experience.Featuring Christelis' long-standing quartet, the highly acclaimed musicians break free from their traditional roles within the jazz idiom. Instead, they embrace a deeply communal approach to improvisation, colouring, shaping, and delineating every moment of each piece together. Across the adventurous album, the listener is taken on a journey that moves through dreamy psychedelic trips, expansive soundscapes, delicate moments of intimacy, and furious bursts of energy - all seamlessly bound by a tone that holds sombre and hopeful feelings in harmonious equilibrium.Line-up
Harry Christelis - guitar / electronics
George Crowley - saxophone / electronics
Andrea Di Biase - double bass
Dave Storey - drumsPress
"With shades of ECM, Jon Hassell and late-'60s Miles Davis, these meditative, minimalist creations
are imbued with offbeat beauty" MOJO"Compelling ambient music pitched somewhere between In A Silent Way-era Miles Davis and late
era Talk Talk" The Guardian"Exemplifies the very notion of innovative and progressive contemporary jazz" UK Vibe
"Breathy and textural tones that perfectly create a sense of space and memory" Soweto Kinch
BBC Radio 3"Music with a serene beauty" Kevin Le Gendre, BBC Radio 3Advance tickets 12/8 concessions (students + unwaged) available from HEART reception and online .
On the Night 15/10