Moanin' Birds

Moanin’ Birds is an epic musical escapade, carried by two strange birds from firm earthy roots to fluttering elusiveness. From the calm, into the storm and back again through a whole rainbow of emotional variety.

Tom Bourgeois (tenor saxophone and bass clarinet) and Fil Caporali (upright bass) use all of their melodic and rhythmic freedom to create a rich musical discussion with a wide range of sound textures, harmonic colour and counterpoint. The intimate connection of these two musicians and their Hitchcockian inspiration pervades this album, as its name suggests. We can make out, in Caporali’s groaning bow strokes and Bourgeois’s laments, hints of Bernard Hermann and Bela Bartok. A profound mastery of their craft and an adventurous spirit is displayed as they move between heavy tensions and weightless flurries on this brazen tandem ride of open and lavish musical expression through contemporary jazz, feeding off their Classical and Brazilian influences.

An unconventional, raw and mesmerising duo.