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Like Lambs - EP

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1.	Giants 08:55 video	info
2.	Like Lambs Part 1 05:56	info
3.	Like Lambs Part 2 06:08	info
4.	The Garden of Beginnings 11:02	info

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A brand new EP release from award-winning UK jazz quartet Empirical, featuring Nathaniel Facey (alto saxophone), Tom Farmer (double bass), Shaney Forbes (drums) and Lewis Wright (vibraphone).

Showcasing three unconventional long-form pieces by drummer Shaney Forbes, the EP’s title track Like Lambs poses an open question whether, as humans, we are truly capable of independent thought - or are we all like lambs to the slaughter?

With their characteristic interplay between composed and improvised parts, Empirical once again demonstrate their masterful ability to inhabit contrasting emotional states in their playing.

Emotions, and the search for original ways of expressing them, is indeed the driving force of these pieces, as Shaney Forbes explains: ‘I’ve become more and more interested in understanding what shapes our different emotional responses to the things we experience in life. In my music, I’m exploring how melodies, rhythms and group interplay play a part in creating a kind of landscape of feelings. And I hope it will provoke an emotional reaction in the listener.’

Like Lambs will be released on 10th June 2022 with a launch show at Kings Place, London and will be available as a limited-edition CD and on all digital platforms. Tickets for the launch are available now.

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released April 14, 2022

All compositions by Shaney Forbes

Nathaniel Facey - Alto Saxophone
Lewis Wright - Vibraphone
Tom Farmer - Double Bass
Shaney Forbes - Drums

Recorded at Fish Factory by Ben Lamdin 16/10/21
Mixed by Alex Bonney
Mastered by Pete Beckmann at TechnologyWorks
Artwork by Claudia Kuss-Tenzer

Produced by Empirical

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