Greg Foat, Art Themen. Off Piste.
Greg Foat is one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists and composers.
He has recorded prolifically in recent years for Jazzman Records, Athens Of The North and, most recently, for Strut, switching effortlessly from soul-jazz fusions to cinematic, haunting compositions, pastoral acid folk and electronic soundscapes.
Athens Of The North – AOTNLP 058
Vinyl, LP, Album
UK, Apr 14, 2023
Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Contemporary Jazz
Greg Foat is one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists and composers.
He has recorded prolifically in recent years for Jazzman Records, Athens Of The North and, most recently, for Strut, switching effortlessly from soul-jazz fusions to cinematic, haunting compositions, pastoral acid folk and electronic soundscapes.
Athens Of The North – AOTNLP 058
Vinyl, LP, Album
UK, Apr 14, 2023
Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Contemporary Jazz
Greg Foat is one of the UK’s leading jazz pianists and composers.
He has recorded prolifically in recent years for Jazzman Records, Athens Of The North and, most recently, for Strut, switching effortlessly from soul-jazz fusions to cinematic, haunting compositions, pastoral acid folk and electronic soundscapes.
Athens Of The North – AOTNLP 058
Vinyl, LP, Album
UK, Apr 14, 2023
Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Contemporary Jazz
Greg Foat has always had a great reverence for the musicians that featured on the records he has collected over the years. Whether they were players from the great European library catalogs, Italian soundtracks, American Jazz but most of all British Jazz. One of his all-time favourites being the beautiful tone of Art Themens Saxophone…
After Art had played on a few sessions for Greg both were keen to record an LP together. Plans were hatched during lockdown and everyone headed to Edinburgh as soon as allowed, to an unassuming metal door that leads to a renowned studio with a large live room with a stunning Neve desk. Chamber Studio has a long Edinburgh heritage, known for recordings from Mogwai to everyone's favourite The Vaselines.
Greg & Art wanted to do something experimental so they brought in an interesting and challenging mix of new musicians along with a large pile of synthesizers and effects pedals. The result is a fantastic melting pot of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic ideas and motifs. ‘Off-Pisté’ is a masterpiece!
Bass – Philip Achille
Drums, Percussion – Nadav Schneerson
Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Prophet 10, Roland SH-101 & MK-80, Sequential OB-6] – Greg Foat
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Graeme Young
Guitar – Gavin Sutherland*
Harp – Amanda Whiting
Lacquer Cut By – SKA*
Layout, Design – Divine Inc.
Mixed By, Mastered By – Euan Fryer, James Thorpe (4), Nick Moore
Photography By – Euan Fryer
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Art Themen
