The Dancers At The Edge Of Time CD

The Greg Foat Group likes to keep busy. Following hot on the heels of their fantastic Live at the Playboy Club, London set - a particularly potent recording of the jazz ensemble at their best - comes their first studio album since 2012. Like its predecessor, Girl & Robot With Flowers, Dancers at the Edge of Time is a suitably spiritual, out-there affair, with wild horn lines and fizzing rhythms supplemented by atmospheric strings and oodles of post-production effects. While there are plenty of impeccably beautiful downtempo numbers - see the near-perfect "Hygela" and the intricate piano work of "The Eye of the Horus" - it's the up-tempo workouts that make the biggest impression. "Riff For Raff" and "The Hunt", in particular, are brilliant.

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