Same Moon In The Same World at The Queen’s Hall Edinburgh tonight was one of those musical events which does not really fit into any of the neat little boxes that all too many people still try to categorise music by. To start with, the name of the band and the title of their album released in November 2022, take their name from a line in Haruki Murakami’s 1999 novel 'Sputnik Sweetheart'.
Watching “the band” tonight, I think of them more as a musical collective with Ant Law (Guitar) and Alex Hitchcock (Saxophone) being at the forefront of this project. Both Ant Law and Alex Hitchcock are not only well established musicians in the contemporary jazz world, but also composers with an always inquisitive and open mind as to where their music can take them. Equally as important though in creative terms, and on-stage tonight, were two more highly respected composers and musicians, Korean drummer Sun-Mi Hong and Danish double bass player Jasper Høiby.
Every member of this quartet has the ability to take a musical thread and endlessly improvise to create new soundscapes, new textures, and along the way captivate their audiences with musicianship at the highest level. With Same Moon In The Same World on-stage there is that sense of being on a journey with them in music and sound and sometimes that destination is a theme, or a place, but at other times it is a journey not to... read the rest of the article here