Moment Of Departure, by Tim Garland

Moment Of Departure

by Tim Garland

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Personally signed by Tim Garland and in gatefold artwork with booklet and fine art by Esra Kizir Gokcen

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digital album releases May 3, 2024

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Personally signed double CD in 6-panel digisleeve with matte finish, and fine Art by Esra Kizir Gokcen

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1.	Winds Of Hope 05:12	buy track
2.	Trails
3.	No Horizon
4.	The Impossible Self
5.	Sub Vita
6.	Moment Of Departure
7.	Moment Of Arrival
8.	Approaching Winter
9.	The Forever Seed Part1 - Fruit
10.	The Forever Seed Part II - Made Beautiful
11.	The Forever Seed Part III - Harbinger
12.	The Forever Seed Nascency
13.	The Forever Seed Praise

about

Seeing a photograph of a base-jumper take that first step off the cliff edge, that ultimately defining moment of departure, I thought about how we dive into the fresh unknown as improvisors, leaving the solid ground of what has been composed, the familiar.

For me, it is an intoxicating, vital feeling, demanding a quick-fire aliveness. It is at once the most free and also the most disciplined I can be.

The music in this collection is a free-dive into the music-making I find my heart most drawn to, along with fellow travellers on this path, Asaf and Gwilym.

I have found the artwork of Esra Kizir Gokcen particularly inspiring, due to the bold use of improvised beginnings and free-flowing forms, underpinned by a rigorous technique.

The first half of this recording was inspired by her “Art From Within” book of daily drawings and the “Sail To Hope” collection. Here, she addresses her own migrant story and illuminates the second meaning of “Moment Of Departure” in these detailed, soulfully eclectic paintings.

In my music, I prize rapport with those around me a great deal, for it buoys us up on our musical journey of trust and risk, putting wind in our sails.

For me, composition is far from just a platform from which to jump into improvisation and the classical music of my upbringing, especially that of the string orchestra, feels like home to me.

"And summer, that keeps returning like a ghost
Of something death has merely made beautiful."
From Autumn, by Philip Larkin

Whereas the great Vivaldi approached his Seasons as moments caught in time like postcards, my Forever Seed traces those pivotal changes of season which can be such emotional “transitions” for us.

“Fruit” references Spring into Summer
“Made Beautiful” - Summer to Autumn
“Harbinger” - Autumn to Winter
“Nascency” - Winter to Spring

The finale “Praise” is a humble acknowledgement of our human place in all this, as well as a tribute to the pastoral music I heard from my father's record player all those years ago.

Each of these concerto-like movements are tagged with a corresponding, largely improvising trio where Thomas Gould departs beautifully from his written soloist part to join Gwilym and cimbalom player Rob Millett, forming interludes that balance out the weightiness of the notated orchestra.

I’d like to thank the two members of The Lighthouse Trio who have inspired me for 20 years, Gwilym Simcock and Asaf Sirkis, who literally co-created the title track “Moment Of Departure” with their beautiful spontaneous playing. Working with Thom Gould has been a delight, as he shows once again that brilliant and potent marriage of amazing technique and an openness to the moment.

Thanks go to Yazz and to Rob for their mesmerising sound and approach and to the brilliant Britten Sinfonia and London Session String Orchestras. Thank you to Martin Hummel of Ubuntu whose positive energy is appreciated by so many on today’s jazz scene. Continued thanks are offered to those teachers of Spirit that guide us toward a larger unity.

The commissioned paintings on the themes of The Forever Seed by Esra Kizir Gokcen portray musical seeds that seem to float amidst horizon-less environments where all is entwined in an incomprehensibly bigger whole. If you’d like to see the whole collection of artworks and discover how they were created alongside the music, go to momentofdeparture.com

credits

releases May 3, 2024

Tim Garland - conductor, soprano & tenor saxes, bass clarinet
Gwilym Simcock - piano
Asaf Sirkis - drums & percussion
Thomas Gould - violin soloist
Yazz Ahmed - flugelhorn on Sub Vita

‘The Forever Seed’ features:
The Strings of The London Studio Orchestra
John Mills - leader
Rob Millett - cimbalom

All music composed by Tim Garland
- except ‘Approaching Winter’ based on ‘Winter’ composed by
Antonio Vivaldi and ‘Moment Of Departure’ which is based on spontaneous solo improvisations by the members of The Lighthouse Trio.

Produced by Tim Garland

Executive Producer: Martin Hummel

Lighthouse Trio tracks recorded at
Masterchord Studios, engineer Ronan Phelan
14th and 15th September 2023

The Forever Seed recorded at
Abbey Road Studio One, engineered by Andrew Dudman
On 7th July 2021

Soloists recorded at Oak Gable
mixed by Dan Hayden

Orchestral Contractor: Jenny Goshawk for Isobel Griffiths

Britten Sinfonia recorded at
School Farm Studios engineered by Stefano Civetta
On 29th Sept 2023

Soloists recorded at Oak Gable
Contractor: The Audio Network team
Mixed by Ronan Phelan

Mastered by Peter Beckmann

Artist photos by Stefan Booth
Original artwork by Esra Kizir Gokcen
Graphic design by Nadja von Massow / ECN Music

Endorsements:
Yazz Ahmed plays Eclipse trumpets and flugelhorns exclusively

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Tim Garland London, UK

“Few world-class jazz improvisers are comparably imaginative composers, but the British reeds player Tim Garland is that rarity.” - The Guardian

"There is no one who can more convincingly unite the jazz and European classical music idioms." - The Observer

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