Or Bareket Quartet featuring Godwin Louis (New York)

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The only UK dates during EU tour of New York based bass player/composer Or Bareket and his Quartet , featuring Godwin on alto, Jeremy Corren on piano and Savannah Harris on drums.
About:
For nearly a decade since moving to New York in the early 2010’s, Or Bareket (Joshua Redman, Chris Potter, Ben Wendel, Leon Parker, José James, Godwin Louis, Marquis
Hill, Aaron Parks, Hamilton de Holanda, James Francies) has been known mainly as a virtuosic, highly versatile, and in-demand bassist who occasionally leads his own groups - his first two albums as leader, 2017’s “OB1” and 2019’s “33”, represented a compelling showcase of his skills on the instrument and featured a wide-ranging exploration of rhythms and forms inspired by his multi-continental ancestry. The last couple of years, however, have brought about a major shift. The formation a new quartet in 2021 and subsequent release of 2022’s “SAHAR”, his highly-acclaimed third album, have seen Bareket tour extensively as a leader for the first time in his career, leading a regular band consisting of Godwin Louis on alto and soprano saxophone, Jeremy Corren on the piano, and Savannah Harris on the drums.
Coming together during a time where Bareket’s compositional vision has begun to cohere into a new phase characterized by a more angular, minimal, and confrontational approach (which somehow manages to remain heartfelt, melodic, and groove-centric), This relatively-new unit is also a culmination of years-long processes of community-building and language-making between all members of the quartet, who have been collaborating in different bands for many years, although never in this particular formation: Bareket has toured extensively with both Joel Ross’ “Good Vibes” which features Corren on piano, and Etienne Charles’ various groups which featured Harris on drums. Louis has worked with both Ross and Charles’, and being a prolific composer himself, has also hired Bareket and Harris on some of his projects.
“YŌM”, the group’s forthcoming album and Bareket’s fourth title as a leader, represents a new evolution for the group and for Bareket as a leader/composer. Energetic, focused, and wide-ranging in its emotional content, yet rigorous and patient in its delivery, the music on the new record is a response to the reality in which it was conceived - in stark contrast to its predecessor, SAHAR, which was written in solitude during the days of Covid lockdown and evoked themes of an introspective dream-state, suspended outside the flow of time, Bareket’s compositions on YŌM were collectively shaped by the members as they were navigating the many collective and personal reckonings of the fast-moving, post-covid world. Meaning “Day” in both semitic languages of Hebrew and Arabic, “YŌM’s 13 tracks attempt to deal with the wide spectrum of what light and can heat mean musically: anywhere from illuminating to blinding, from a comforting warmth to a burning heat. The quartet’s specific balance of personal temperaments is uniquely suited to explore such a vast soundscape; Savannah Harris, the group’s drummer often refers to the quartet’s style of group improvisation as a type musical “Capoeira” - the Afro-Brazilian martial-art/dance from whose practitioners are simultaneously dancing and sparring in rhythm