new album: "Disruption! The Voice of Drums" Jeremy Rose

 new album
"Disruption! The Voice of Drums"
Jeremy Rose & The Earshift Orchestra
Featuring Simon Barker and Chloe Kim

“hell bent on pushing the very definition of jazz… Earshift represents the fresh future of Australian music”
-- New York City Jazz Record

Sydney’s Earshift Music has released 60 albums to date, representing the diverse cultural bleed of Australia in the next generation of jazz musicians. Founded in 2009 and headed by saxophonist Jeremy Rose, another 9 albums are on the books up to March 2023, including The Vampires featuring The Necks pianist Chris Abrahams.

On 14 October it released "Disruption! The Voice of Drums", powered by the extraordinary Simon Barker and Chloe Kim solo drumsets. Jeremy Rose leads the Earshift Orchestra, in lament and revival.

Composer credits are shared between Rose, Simon Barker and Chloe Kim. Working out from previously released solo pieces by Barker and Kim, Rose re-thought his compositional approach for the Orchestra, usually dictated by harmony and melody, to create layers where instruments come in and out of focus, and on which the drum are foregrounded.

Simon Barker’s compositional method is to run, bare foot, long distance, rhythms timbre and tactility being written into his body and his music. He has spent over 20 years studying the principles of organising rhythm from traditional cultures of the Asia Pacific region, including intensive time spent in Korea. He is perhaps best known internationally for his collaboration with Pansori singer Bae Il Dong and Scott Tinkler, in the trio Chiri.

Chloe Kim relocated from Korea to Sydney in 2012. At 26 years old she is building on her traditional Korean musical heritage, through her discoveries of rock, hip-hop and jazz, to carve her own distinctive path.

Premiering at the 2021 Sydney Festival "Disruption! The Voice of Drums" germinated in the political, environmental and ecological turmoil of recent years. Our chants and rhythms, some of which appear on the album, were heard on the streets when we could gather. In our isolation we beat out mass pot & pan improvisations across the globe. Drums, the abiding visceral centre for communal rituals, ceremonies and protest, spoke what we couldn’t say or had been saying to deaf ears. Drums have the capacity to alter brainwaves. We could do with more of that.

“A sombre sometimes explosive exploration of percussion set to the tense groove of civil unrest.”
-- Limelight Magazine

CD & Vinyl - Release 14 October 2022
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Jeremy Rose Director, Composer, Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
Simon Barker Composer, Drum Soloist
Chloe Kim Composer, Drum Soloist

Ben Carey Modular Synthesizer
Jacques Emery Bass
Hilary Geddes Guitar
Thomas Avgenicos Trumpet
Novak Manojlovic Piano, Rhodes, Prophet

Jeremy Rose is a two-time ARIA nominated Eora/Sydney based woodwind specialist, composer, band leader, label founder and festival director, whose music explores the intersection of socio-culture and genre, creating collaborative projects that span the globe. His music has been performed at festivals around Australia, Europe and the UK, has toured extensively in Australia, in Europe including recently with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and The Vampires collaboration with guitarist Lionel Loueke.
www.jeremyrose.com.au
“buoyant invention: never seeming to flag or to want for new ideas… Jeremy Rose is one to watch on the Australian jazz scene… “ -- Jazzwise UK

Simon Barker has performed throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and the US. In 2008 Emma Franz’s documentary feature Intangible Asset Number 82 followed Simon’s journey through Korea searching for enigmatic shaman Kim Seok Chul. His interest in developing new music with East Asian musicians has led to numerous collaborations including the Makoto Kuria Trio, Japan Australia Jazz Orchestra, Hoe Jin Oh Trio, Won Il, and improviser Kim Dae Hwan. He performs regularly with many of Australia’s finest jazz groups including The Australian Art Orchestra, Katie Noonan, Vince Jones, Scott Tinkler Trio, The Phil Slater quartet and the Matt McMahon Trio. Simon has also played with many international touring artists including Tim Berne, Marilyn Crispell, Joe Lovano, Sheila Jordan, Gary Smulyan, John Hicks and Carlos Ward.
www.simonbarker.com.au
“Barker has few peers worldwide for flexibility, resourcefulness, imagination and a complete absence of rhythmic clichés.” -- Sydney Morning Herald

Chloe Kim, Korean-born Australian-resident since 2012, Chloe’s interest in jazz and improvised music was sparked and developed at Sydney Conservatorium of Music and in Sydney's jazz, improvising, experimental music scene. She co-leads several bands that are highly active including minimalist/drone/jazz/rock group HOLOPEAK, a bass/drum duo JACHLO, a 9-piece female jazz ensemble RAINPATTERNS and percussion trio TA GO LAK. She featured in Sonic Futures (2019) as an outstanding young jazz talent.
www.chloekimdrums.com
“at the centre of a fascinating movement of cross-cultural jazz” -- Peter Knight, Australian Art Orchestra