1. A Year On The Ice
2. I Looked Back
3. Dusk, The Neon Coming On
4. Biography Of A Bird
5. Later And Later
6. Beyond The Surf

All tracks by Orfeo 5

• Shaun Blezard: electronics & processing
• Keith Jafrate: saxophone

Recorded August 2008 at The Word Hoard, Halifax

Though orfeo 5 first performed in 2002, after a long series of line-up changes we have finally released our first CD in 2009. a year on the ice combines influences from, among many, Jon Hassell, Evan Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and Nils Pieter Molvaer in music that is romantic and narrative and mysterious all at once. Without setting out to do so, we seem to have created something that stays close to jazz while drawing on all sorts of other musics. All the tracks are improvisations recorded live at The Word Hoard in Dean Clough, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, and the CD as a whole is like a journey, somehow ambient and passionate at the same time.

'Jafrate's saxophone alternates between atonality and lyricism with sublime ease and Blezard's noises can be both unobtrusive and leading depending on the particular compositions....a mighty fine melding of breath, circuitry and oodles of ideas. Recommended.' - Wonderful Wooden Reasons

'saxophones with live electronics in winning combinations, restrained yet packed with information; they explore their own interior landscapes as much as they limn the craggy geography of West Yorkshire in sound.' - The Sound Projector

'I just got up from laying down while listening to your music. man, what can i say? besides the prowess, i really love the organic quality. and big room to stretch. you have a great knack for keeping the balance between too much and not enough. transitions are seamless, and i love the scales the sax rides - they seem like the underside of what i would typically hear.' - Vicki Brown

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