Debut album from UK jazz saxophonist and composer Miles Spilsbury, featuring Carlos Niño. Produced by Slugabed.
Light Manoeuvres is about warmth, generosity and openness. The music
which would become Light Manoeuvres was sketched in fragments, but
began to take shape in earnest during a period of living under the
Marseille haze in the South of France.
The specific character and opacity of the light in Marseille inspired
the album title which imagines the movement of light passing over
different subjects and spaces in intricate motion. Sand blows over from
the Sahara on the Sirocco wind and is whipped up by the Mistral, the
Marseille sky becomes golden and vapoured, then intermittently pastel
blue. That image stuck while shaping this body of work, and became
integral to the function of the compositions - which act as jumping off
points for the players and myself, vehicles for improvisation and
gateways to something else entirely.
Tracklist:
1. Cloud Formations
2. Gratitude
3. Light Theme
4. Cyclamen
5. Water on Water
6. Tungsten
7. Uig
8. En-Vau