Name: Earth Patterns
Brand: Szun Waves

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2022-08-19

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Szun Waves

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The Leaf Label

Szun Waves is an innovative and boundary-pushing musical collective that blends elements of jazz, electronic, and experimental music. Comprised of *Luke Abbott*, *Jack Wyllie*, and *Laurence Pike*, Szun Waves creates mesmerizing soundscapes that captivate listeners with their unique blend of improvisation and composition.

With influences ranging from free jazz to ambient electronica, Szun Waves has carved out a distinct sonic territory all their own. Their music is characterized by hypnotic rhythms, intricate melodies, and immersive textures that transport the listener to another realm.

Similar artists to Szun Waves include Sarathy Korwar, Ill Considered, Anteloper, Binker and Moses, Shabaka Hutchings, Sam Gendel, Ben LaMar Gay, The Necks, Jaimie Branch, Maria Chiara Argirò, Laurence Pike (also a member of Szun Waves), Theon Cross,and many more. If you enjoy the adventurous sounds of these artists or are simply looking for something new and exciting in the world of music,<en></en> Szun Waves is sure to captivate your ears.

Independent, UK-based record company.  Majority-owned and controlled by [a1167051].  Name variations as it appears on one or more releases:
- The Leaf Label Ltd

See also [l708357], mainly found on releases prior to the Company's incorporation in 2002.

Full legal entity name: The Leaf Label Limited
UK Company number: 04402147
Incorporated: 22 March 2002

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The members of Szun Waves may not have been collectively in the same country, let alone room, for over two years, but that hasn’t prevented them from realising their third album, Earth Patterns.

The trio – comprised of producer Luke Abbott, saxophonist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet) and drummer Laurence Pike (Triosk/PVT/Liars) – recorded the album sessions together at the tail end of their 2019 European tour, locking themselves away in the studio for three days of improvisation. They emerged with hours of music, some inspired by their live shows, most born fresh in the studio itself, ready to be moulded into the group’s third album in five years. However, with Laurence marooned in Australia, and Luke and Jack grounded in different parts of the UK, it meant an unexpected reassessment of the band’s creative remit, and the enforced long gestation period almost inadvertently ended up creating the most fully-formed Szun Waves record to date. 

Where second album, New Hymn To Freedom, had its face tilted up to the heavens, Earth Patterns is a more grounded record, and in places, a more claustrophobic one: Wyllie’s saxophone squalls ripple in the background as Pike’s dense drums clatter, both shaped and guided by the atmospherics of Abbott’s synths. Moments of jazz harmony collide with cinematic soundscapes; long searching passages build into kaleidoscopic frenzies.