A huge thank you to Jane Cornwell at the Evening Standard for this lovely review. We’re a very happy band 🙂
A huge thank you to Jane Cornwell at the Evening Standard for this lovely review. We’re a very happy band 🙂
Love this narrative interpretation of The Search – go to the original post to see the full story!
Collocutor`s music tells tales. The band`s debut, Instead, had the vibe of Tom Waits running with Rain Dogs and Beats through Sondheim and Bernstein`s gangland Westside. Of Nelson Algren and Hubert Selby Jr.`s NYC. Junk and Tra La La. Late night rapping with Kerouac and Cassady, high on Benzedrine and Tea. Poetry and all that Jazz. The artwork to their sophomore release, The Search, also inspires imagined narratives. With graphics that hark back to the heyday of Straight No Chaser. When Jazz meant everything new. Where a bright collage of patterns and geometrics describe mountains and rivers. Reflect a super red sun in orange and purple. Demark a citadel. Towers and minarets. Watched over by all-seeing eyes. Our hosts, the players, wrapped in magical, psychedelic cloaks. Given this colourful landscape, this time out perhaps the story Collocutor aim to spin is more One Thousand and One Nights
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Here’s a little interview Tamar did with Lonely Table ahead of Collocutor’s gig at Church of Sound in London. They talk about the band’s forthcoming album ‘The Search’, and the Yusef Lateef material they’ll be playing at the gig:
We’re very excited, the wait for our new album is nearly over!
Head across to bandcamp to preorder your copy, featuring artwork by the amazing Victoria Topping and some special extras with the limited edition vinyl….just click the link in the player!
A great way to round off 2016!
Way back in January we went into the studio to record our second album ‘The Search’. Test presses finally landed a few weeks ago, and one of the tracks was featured on Gilles Peterson’s BBC 6Music show on 17th December:
News about the release date coming soon!
colectivo futuro talked to Collocutor’s Tamar about her musical life and the ideas behind the band. Read it here:
Here’s a little mix Tamar did for The Jazz Meet, exploring some of the inspirations behind writing our forthcoming 2nd album ‘The Search’:
Enjoy!
Brand new remix of our tune Agama courtesy of Contours available NOW via the On The Corner Records bandcamp page – general release 17th June. Time to hit the dance floor!
A few reactions:
F!@* yeah. Dom Servini (Amazing Radio/ Wah Wah 45s)Â
like someone recreating a Larry Heard / Robert Owens classic live while Fela & Africa 70 ride atop of the resulting groove. Dr Rob (Test Press)Â
This not ‘On The Corner’ this ‘On The MONEY’, loving it to bits!! 


Mike AllinÂ
yes… 🙂 


 
Sara Garvey 


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MASSIVE!


 
Kust0: (Tropical Temple)Â
oooof! mega, loving it


 


 
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BANG!!!!! FYYYYYRRRREEEEEEEEEEE!!!! 
black classicalÂ
DOPE GUYS !!! SimbadÂ
Fuck…what a brilliant trac…I love it, OtC on fire baby.Â
keep on keeping on. Rich Thair (Red Snapper)Â
TUNE!!!!!!!! Mike Chadwick (Jazz FM)Â
Extremely pleasant! Will LV (Brownswood)Â
WHHHOOOAAAA!!!! – Early throwdown for tune of the year….Â
Jheeze……….. (Charlie Curran 
- Naim)
Online jazz magazine UK Vibe recently interviewed Tamar about the inspirations and processes behind bringing Collocutor’s music to life:
(photo by Gavin Mills)