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Looking Up
Album Description
Move joyously from jazz to world beats, showcasing beautiful, intimate performances and crusading grooves. The opening track 'Awakening', evokes Arabic mysticism before broadening into a passionate, yearning saxophone aria from master wind instrumentalist Phil Bywater. The album unfolds in a series of featured performances from emotive double bassist Anita Hustas and endlessly creative guitarist Elliott Folvig, underpinned by a remarkable rhythm section of drummer Will Guthrie, rich, earthy electric bassist Dale Lindrea, and evocative percussionist Elissa Goodrich. 'Buried Treasure' (formerly The Great Unwashed) is an exciting, colourful band blending jazz and African beats with injections of hip hop, blues, funk, the Caribbean and South America, Asia and the Middle East.
Phil Bywater is a swashbuckling virtuoso improviser on the tenor saxophone. He is also a powerful performer on clarinet, flute, and any number of 'little instruments' from around the world. He is a prolific composer, and this new band allows him to explore that passion to the full. Phil has also been involved with, Adam Simmons Toy Band, Bomba, Onomatomania, Hop Jump Big Band, Zulya Kamalova and Will Guthrie's freejazz experience Antboy
Album Tracks
- Sooty's Return
- Mingusee
- Recessional
- Lullaby
- Duke's Jungle
- Real Progress Coomes Slowly
- Thelonious Encooounters The Underdog
- D'd'n
- Angkor
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Press Clippings for 'Looking Up'
Posted by Unknown on 9th Jan 2012
"while Angkor hauntingly evokes Cambodian temples, Duke's Jungle takes us deep inside jazz mythology. Bywater more than dabbles with flute and clarinet, and can burn on tenor saxophone"
John Shand
Sydney Morning Herald, August 2003
"Phil Bywater and Anita Hustas are mixing jazz tunes with rhythms and beats from the far-flung corners of the globe...positive and expressive music"
"Expressive sounds uplift audience"
Port Phillip Leader, September 2003
"From other side of the sound world comes Phil Bywater's Buried Treasure, which allows Guthrie the opportunity to dip into some regular beats, jazz shuffling and work with some traditional instrumentalists.
This outfit however, comprised of an almost supergroup of some of our best and brightest local jazz musicians is anything but traditional.
Bywater himself, a renowned saxophonist, clarinettist, woodwind player and composer has previously been involved with the Adam Simmons Toy Band and Bomba and established this ensemble to give life to tunes,many of which they had been playing in various bands for five or six years.
Blending jazz, swing, klezmer, funk and world music influences as divergent as African beats and Middle Eastern melodies, Buried Treasure, a sextet, features everything from double bass to vibraphone, marimba and xylophone
and is an amazing showcase of each instrumentalists amazing talents, as well as Bywater's original approach to composition.
This is a very classy and interesting take on jazz, created by some of the new guard, and needless to say Guthrie's percussion work is continuously inventive and involving."
Bob Baker Fish
Beat Magazine March 2004
"The performances capture the listener's interest through a diverse program featuring compositions that touch on a variety of influences, from South Africa to the Middle East, as well as blues, funk and jazz..."Awakening" is...grounded by bassist Anita Hustas' lengthy, moving arco lines that resolve into a powerful vamp for Bywater's throaty tenor flights, as the tension increases over its duration...the depth of the influences and the range of compositions make this a worthwhile journey."
Jay Collins
Cadence Magazine (USA) November 2003
"The instrumentation is slightly unusual, in that they have both a bass guitarist (Dale Lindrea) and an acoustic bassist (Anita Hustas), the latter often using the bow to share the role of lead melodic voice with Phil Bywater's saxophone, clarinet or flute; some of her solos are brilliant. 'Awakening' settles into a hypnotic Arabic mood which provides an ideal setting for Bywater's warm-toned, expansive tenor. (Here and elsewhere, his tenor playing can bring to mind some of Pharoah Sanders' work on some of his '70s Impulse recordings). Along with Bywater, Hustas, and Lindrea, the band features Elliott Folvig (guitar), Elissa Goodrich (vibraphone, marimba, percussion) and Will Guthrie (drums, percussion)."
Adrian Jackson
Rhythms Magazine January 2004
