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BAND/ARTIST: Vega Trails
Title: Sierra Tracks
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Gondwana Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 45:24
Total Size: 201 MB
Tracklist:
1. Largo (05:23)
2. Els (06:37)
3. Murmurations (05:11)
4. Dream House (03:15)
5. Clarifantasia (05:46)
6. Reverie (02:01)
7. Murmur (05:19)
8. Old Friend; The Sea (04:37)
9. When This Is Over (04:17)
10. Sleepwalk Tokyo (02:5
Inspired by the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains north-west of Madrid, his home since August 2022, Milo Fitzpatrick presents Sierra Tracks the new album from his expansive, cinematic, chamber-jazz project Vega Trails.
Having cut 2022’s beautifully resonant debut album ‘Tremors in the Static’ as a duo, alongside saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands and Sunda Arc), Milo now substantially expands upon that blueprint with his follow-up, ‘Sierra Tracks’, which, as the title suggests, was conceived at his new home in central Spain and adds piano, vibraphone and strings to the mix.
From the epic five-minute opener, ‘Largo’, onwards, there’s a cinematic feel to ‘Sierra Tracks’, as each piece unfolds according to its own sweeping narrative, often wonderfully evocative of the mountains’ wide-open spaces, and also sometimes elaborately arranged with cello, orchestral strings, vibraphone and piano, to evoke their awe-inspiring natural splendour. ‘Reverie’ has a refrain that fades in and out, like a daydream”. ‘Els’ is more firmly rooted in folk melody, while ‘Dream House’ and ‘Sleepwalk Tokyo’ boost a sense of otherworldliness.
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