The Dark Peak – Album Out Today!

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Our brand new album is released world-wide today October 24th 2011.

Read all about it below!!!

European Union Quartet

-The Dark Peak-  Release date: October 24th 2011

Atmosphere and emotions are key words for the European Union Quartet and its cd ‘The dark peak’. A quartet that is really European with its combination of a Dutch, a German, a Slovak and an English jazzmusician. The title piece (by bassplayer Gavin Barras) has a nearly picturesque quality: one hears a landscape growing in the sheer suggestive lines of sax and guitar. Adventurous music making is what these nine, own compositions have in common. It can be in subtle musings, with a dreamlike feel, like in the beautiful soundscape of ‘House by the lake’. Or in the way the quartet grows together towards a structure in ‘Reddish Vale’. All four instruments are equally important in their improvisations and strikingly together in emotionality. Saxplayer Iman Spaargarens composition ‘Zieleroersel’ is all about emotions and it is a joy to hear how suggestive and controlled the band explores form and sound. The European Union Quartet plays a modern jazz that looks for the inside of things. With great emotional and melodic qualities.

For soundsamples and other information go to:

www.oaprecords.com/catalog/euq

For more information about the band go to: www.jazzquartet.eu

Iman Spaargaren - Saxophones & Bass Clarinet

Ulrich Elbracht – Guitar

Gavin Barras – Double Bass

Marek Dorcik- Drums

Produced by O.A.P. Records

Producer & Engineer: Barry Olthof

Graphic Design: Monomonnik

Photography: Ron Beenen

Recordings made by Olthof Audio Productions at The Wedgeview Studio, Woerdense Verlaat, The Netherlands

Mixed and mastered at O.A.P. Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands

Release date: 24 October 2011

Cat. Nr: OAPR1101

Labelcode: 25530
EAN-code: 8714835087380

Distribution Bertus order Nr: K63496

? & ? O.A.P. Records 2011

TRACKS:

1 Reddish Vale

2 Schmeissendorf 7

3 Na de Regen

4 House by the Lake

5 Sixth Sence

6 Zieleroersel

7 Dear Mr. Scofield

8 The Dark Prelude

9 The Dark Peak

Track 1, 3, 4 and 6 composed by Iman Spaargaren

Track 2, 5 and 7 composed by Ulrich Elbracht

Track 8 and 9 composed by Gavin Barras