Tectonic Plates: The Highly Anticipated Album Flipping Improvised Music on its Head, Thanks to New Trio Starring Alan Niblock, John Butcher, and Mark Sanders
 
The moment improv fans have been waiting for has arrived!  577 Records is ecstatic to debut budding Irish bass player Alan Niblock alongside legendary improv masters, saxist John Butcher and percussionist Mark Sanders).  Tectonic Plates marks their first album as a trio – and it’s a must-have!
The group is a catapulting poster child for modern-day improv.  Although Niblock is new to Brooklyn’s 577 Records, Butcher and Sanders are not – and none of these talented musicians are strangers to each other.  Together, they serve a creativity-charged collection of unique instrumental voices co-piloting toward a common goal that unfolds before your very ears.  As they perform, the audience becomes a part of their creative ecosystem.  Their reactions and enthusiasm fuel the trio's innovation.
Tectonic Plates is a five-track paragon recorded live at The Black Box in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Each piece bears a name from the tectonic lexicon and sizzles with graceful unpredictability, much like our planet’s inherent movements.  The first, Mountains, rises from a valley of percussion to meet the tenor and bowed bass – a union made solid by shared pedal points and uplifted by the saxophone’s quirky sounds.  Distinctively, the double bass and percussion guide the intensity, culminating in a fundamental collective, like an orogenic event you can feel through the speakers.
“From a cognitive perspective, we hear the individual thoughts and feelings in the sonic process, which shape the narrative and further enhance the consistency during certain moments,” the group explains.  “There is nothing that doesn't fit musically in this trio performance.  These traits are a reflection of their mental intuitiveness on display.”
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Tectonic Plates

Alan Niblock, John Butcher, Mark Sanders: 'Mantle Plume' from album 'Tectonic Plates' (577 Records)

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577 Records is proud to be celebrating its 24 year anniversary.  The legendary music master Daniel Carter was one of the first people 577 cofounder Federico Ughi met soon after arriving in New York from Italy in 2000, after a brief stint in London.  It was a meeting of like minds and shortly thereafter the two started a series of house concerts at 577 Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, the apartment where Federico was living at the time. The spontaneous nature of the concerts along with the incredible caliber of the deep downtown underground music they were able to present inspired them to bring the unique nature of what they were doing to a wider audience and they founded the label 577 Records to further that mission. 

577 Records started the New York Forward Festival in 2015 to mark the momentous occasion of Daniel Carter’s 70th birthday, now with festival editions happening in Morocco and Italy as well, and the international residency program Sounds of Freedom, in which active musicians are awarded the opportunity to develop their own sound, skills, and improvisation concept.

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 “Guided by a mission to capture the ephemeral, to keep jazz relevant, and to foster a collaborative community of artists, the music 577 releases is timeless, masterful, and mystical.” - Bandcamp

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