Following a very ltd. edition direct-to-customer release at the tail end of 2020, Binker Golding and Moses Boyd are now gearing up to release a digital edition of their new live album “Escape The Flames”. Due out 29th January 2021 via Gearbox Records, the album is being premiered in full by Brooklyn Vegan, who say:
You can feel Binker and Moses feeding off each other and all the natural chemistry that they have, and when you hear audience members shout during one of Moses’ fiery drum solos, it’s hard not to share their excitement.
Those who know the duo will appreciate that every Binker and Moses performance is distinct in itself, characterised by a mutual spontaneity and a tireless interrogation of the infinite. This 6-track recording, taken from their Journey to the Mountain of Forever album launch at the iconic Total Refreshment Centre back in 2017, is a whole new interpretation of the studio album’s first disc (with the opening tune clocking in at a full 17 minutes of semi-free exploration.) The audience’s excitement, a sound-bed of whoops and yells, is heard intermittently throughout and only adds to the incredible vibe – a tonic perhaps to these gig-dry, restricted times. Speaking about the album, Binker Golding says, “This recording is ‘Journey to the Mountain of Forever’ as it intended to be.”
The album follows the duo’s aforementioned critically acclaimed album, “Journey to the Mountain of Forever”, and their previous live album “Alive In The East”, which saw the duo playing alongside a number of the UK’s most prominent musicians both old and new – including guest appearances from Evan Parker, Byron Wallen, Tori Handsley and Yussef Dayes.
The album also comes alongside the announcement of a re-pressing of the duo’s lauded debut album “Dem Ones”. The release will be available on ltd. edition clear vinyl, initially for US customers only, from Gearbox Records in early Feb.
Binker and Moses are among the frontrunners of London-based jazz musicians that are influenced by the music that surrounds them including grime, hip-hop, electronic and blog culture as well as, of course, jazz. Like their current counterparts, they’re connecting with a new, younger audience. These young musicians have been trying to turn the expectations of the genre on its head – appearing everywhere from national televised performances such as the esteemed Later… With Jools Holland, whilst conversely performing in intimate spaces at the likes of Dalston and Deptford’s Job Centre as well in bookshops, cafes and record stores.
Born either side of the Thames – Binker north in Edmonton, Moses south in Catford – the pair met eight years ago and toured extensively as members of Zara McFarlane’s band, recording three albums for Giles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings. It was during the onstage sound checks with McFarlane that Binker and Moses started developing their duo improvisations, eventually bringing the idea of recording them to the attention of Gearbox Records, the vinyl-led record label and vinyl mastering studio.