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Welsh producer and bassist Huw Marc Bennett, the man behind a number of innovative and exciting musical excursions, announces his hugely impressive, new Tresilian Bay project in celebratory style. Bennett, known for his Gambian-focused sound as Susso on Soundway Records and as part of electronic jazz outfit Saltwater Samurai, is a well-established part of the London jazz community. As jazz continues to experience a heady and fascinating resurgence in the capital, the Tresilian Bay project serves as a perfect snapshot of the energy, excitement and explosion of ideas and cultural exchange that has been fizzing away in London over the past couple of years. The record is full of energy and life, traversing a rich and complex soundscape that takes in wide-ranging influences and styles. From dub to Afrobeat, jazz, Brazilian groove, psychedelia, Ghanaian highlife electronica and soul, Tresilian Bay is an ever-shifting, expansive and unpredictable celebration of music that brings disparate cultures together. Merging the traditional with the modern, the record combines exotic, bustling rhythms with bass-driven melodies, warm production and a keen sense of momentum. Tresilian Bay has a balmy atmosphere, created by grooves that have been warmed by the sun, which also burns cracks in the rhythm underfoot and ingrains everything it touches with a laidback and contented outlook. A magnificently accomplished record that expertly weaves together an innovative and expansive sound, Tresilian Bay is a genuine triumph that deserves to be celebrated in the same style as its expressive sound that bursts from its every single note. Tom Jones

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