Blue-Eyed Hawk

Taking its name from a line in W.B. Yeats's poem Under the Moon, London-based band Blue-Eyed Hawk brings together four of the UK's most lauded young performer/composers. Traversing art-rock, jazz, minimalist and electronic soundworlds, Blue-Eyed Hawk's debut album, titled after the same poem, was co-produced by Polar Bear's Tom Herbert and released on Edition Records in September 2014. Winner of the Best Jazz Album category in The Irish Times' The Ticket Awards 2014, it has been hailed as "one of the most thoughtful and imaginative albums of the year" (musicOMH), and Blue-Eyed Hawk was subsequently nominated as Best Newcomer in the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Elsewhere, the band's open-eared approach to song-writing has been described as “gloriously original” (The Jazz Mann), “powerfully emotive” (All About Jazz) and “utterly distinctive” (London Jazz News). Following performances at the Royal Albert Hall (broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of the BBC Proms), the Southbank Centre and the Barbican (both as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival) and dates in Stockholm, Dublin and Rotterdam, Blue-Eyed Hawk was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to record a set of new music based on the writing of Franz Kafka, which was recently broadcast on Jazz on 3. Debut album Under the Moon out now. Listen / buy at http://store.editionrecords.com/album/under-the-moon