Jonny Phillips: guitar / composer
Ingrid Laubrock: tenor saxophone
Fernando de Marco/Ruth Goller: bass guitar
Ben Davis: cello
Nick Ramm: keys
Seb Rochford: drums
Adriano Adewale Itauna: percussion

Very special guests have included:

Teco Cardoso - Tenor Sax, Julia Biel - Vocals, Idris Rahman - Clarinet, Afonso Corea - Drums/Percussion, Thomas Clausen - Piano, Anders Christensen - Bass, Sarah Homer - Bass Clarinet

About the project:

 "The UK's self contained neo-samba nova wave that's well free of any Ipanema coctail cliche." Kevin Le Gendre

A group drawing on musical, visual, folkloric and contemporary influences from across the globe to create music that has a strong emotional impact. Their debut CD entitled 'Song for the Sleeping' was released on the F-IRE label in May 2005.

"Migration" is Oriole's second album, a sensory banquet of soaring melodies, colourful South American folklore, lively dances and emotional ballads of longing. Music that creates a rich, emotionally disquieting world that is at once familiar and dreamlike. A world of freedom, of movement, of dusty roads and traveling musicians in shaded market squares whose journey will never end.

Oriole's composer and guitarist Jonny Phillips has travelled widely, blending the musical, folkloric and dance traditions of North Brazil, West Africa, Southern Europe and beyond. These influences have been as important as the folkloric music of his own region and the church music of his composer parents. Here both the migrations of the composer and the band members have resulted in the creation of new musical hybrids, the physical and artistic travels being inseparable.

Last year with financial help from The Jerwood Foundation, The Arts Council of England and The PRS Foundation Oriole toured the UK with Brazilian Saxophonist Teco Cardoso under the name "Oriole Brazil".

Jonny now lives in Andelucia, southern Spain but will be migrating to London and Portugal  in the near future to perform his music. More info in the gigs section.

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