Name: Wonder Trail
Brand: Dinosaur

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

edn1111

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-05-04

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Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

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5060509790371

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Artist

Dinosaur

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Edition

Mercury shortlisted band Dinosaur continue to surprise and impress with their remarkable new album <i>Wonder Trail</i>. Dinosaur’s second album is as electrifyingly different as anyone who knows Laura Jurd’s track record would expect. Never one to be labeled, the fearsomely talented and multiple award-winning Jurd has a Miles-like way of taking her work and tuning it to illuminate a vast array of musical worlds. She’s done orchestrated and meticulously composed; jazz rock grooves; electronic minimalism; mainstream jazz and now, with her new album, <i>Wonder Trail</i>, and band Dinosaur, keyboard maestro Elliot Galvin to the fore, she’s plundered the synth-pop of the 1980s for a new sound. But this is not gratuitous borrowing, or any kind of hipsterish, retro post-modernism. For one, these are very current sounds (Broen’s an indie band with similar reference points that comes up in conversation). And for two, Jurd and Galvin use the poptastic-ness of the keyboard sound as a sort of tin opener to get into all kinds of serious musical areas - improvisation, vocodered strangeness, strutting rockishness, bucolic folkiness. But, as with any proper stylistic amalgam, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. 

Wonder Trail

Music GB