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Greg Foat is a London-based keyboardist, composer, bandleader and DJ. He claims his life-long love/hate relationship with the piano began at age 3, when he fell off a piano stool at his aunt's house. He started composing around age 11, and at 15 attended a jazz workshop with Jeff Clyne, Olaf Vas, Trevor Tomkins and Nick Weldon, igniting his obsession with jazz music. He furthered to study jazz at Middlesex University, and then studied for 6 months in Sweden on an Erasmus grant. He played his first professional studio session there at 21, and has been working as a professional musician ever since.

Snake Plant Shuffle and Spider Plant Blues are inspired by the the plants on Gregs bedside tables - which periodically move around the house dependent on his mood. The plants provide a good source of oxygen in the room and create a calm soothing atmosphere for Gregs musical projects. Together the tracks feature live drum kits by Ayo Salawu, Fender Rhodes and a plethora of Vintage Synthesisers.

Snake Plant Shuffle has had radio plays in Gemany, Poland and Canada, as well as being heavily featured in Amazon Music's Jazz playlists, including 'Fresh Jazz', 'Coffee Shop Jazz' and 'Café Jazz'. Both tracks are featured in Apple Music' 'Jazz Scene: UK' and 'New Latitudes' playlists.

TRACK LISTING

1. Spider Plant Blues
2. Snake Plant Shuffle

Greg Foat & Gigi Masin

The Fish Factory Sessions (RSD24 EDITION)

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    Greg Foat & Sokratis Votskos

    Live At Villa Maximus, Mykonos (feat. Warren Hampshire & Ayo Salawu)

      Greg Foat's Greek Jazz quartet featuring Sokratis Votskos, Warren Hampshire and Ayo Salawu recorded live in Mykonos. Big fat Synth bass lines with Psychedelic Guitar, Hypnotic Bass Clarinet, mystical Flute and Killer Drums.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Tsamykonos (feat. Warren Hampshire & Ayo Salawu)
      2. Kiki's Tavern (For Vasilis) [feat. Warren Hampshire & Ayo Salawu]
      3. On The Rose Bush (feat. Warren Hampshire & Ayo Salawu)
      4. Secret World, Pt. 1 (feat. Warren Hampshire & Ayo Salawu)
      5. Secret World, Pt. 2 (feat. Warren Hampshire & Ayo Salawu)
      6. Secret World, Pt. 3 (feat. Warren Hampshire & Ayo Salawu)

      Special Poolside Analogue Synth and drum machine session recorded live in Ibiza. Bearing in mind the setting this beautiful album was recorded in and the calming album cover, the whole thing evokes a sense of relaxation. Greg Foat is a master of the combination of Ambient, Balearic and Funk.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Pool Side Part 1 (Live)
      2. Pool Side Part 2 (Live)
      3. Pool Side Part 3 (Live)
      4. Pool Side Part 4 (Live)
      5. Dining Table Grooves (Live)
      6. Sunset Part 1 (Live)
      7. Sunset Part 2 (Live)

      A concept album of Analogue Electronic Sci Fi Library Grooves for Synthesisers and Percussion. Commissioned by Sonoton and inspired by the 70's & 80's Sonoton music Library Catalogue. Featuring Ayo Salawu on Drums (Kokoroko) and Greg Foat with his impressive collection of vintage Synthesisers. File under Library Music

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Interstellar Fantasy
      2. Journey To Arcturus
      3. Solar Pirates
      4. Mines Of Andromeda
      5. Stasis Loop
      6. The Lonely Robot
      7. Cruising Home

      Greg Foat & Gigi Masin

      Dolphin

        Recorded remotely during 2021-2022 the album took shape in the form of mutual compositions, gradually developed and embellished online. Final recording sessions took place at the majestic Chale Abbey Studios on the Isle Of Wight with Moses Boyd (drums), Tom Herbert (bass) and Siobhan Cosgrove (flute, clarinet) adding elements to several pieces. Tracks include the reflective, wistful single ‘VientoCalido’ and drifting ambient piece ‘Sabena’, a beautiful tribute to Gigi’s wife who sadly passed away during 2022.

        Greg Foat has recorded prolifically in recent years including acclaimed albums Symphonie Pacifique (2020) and The Mage (2019).
        Best known for his 1986 ambient masterpiece Wind and as a member of Gaussian Curve, Gigi Masin has enjoyed a revival in recent years through his Calypso album on R&S’s Apollo label and renewed touring. Dolphin represents Greg and Gigi’s first landmark recording collaboration together. “I first heard Gigi’s album Wind in 2016,” remembers Greg. “I was living in Miami and I heard it playing one Summer evening. Since then, it has always been in my mind to be able to record together.”

        "This album is a tribute to the joy of playing together and creating something beautiful and exciting. A sincere hymn to life"(Gigi Masin)


        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: Two of the greatest forces in ambient music here, presenting a laid-back suite of shimmering aquatic melodies and deft pad swells, lightened with a deft touch of loungey jazz keys and swimming Balearic groove. Every bit as wonderful as you'd expect from such legendary musicians.

        TRACK LISTING

        1 / A1 Lee
        2 / A2 London Nights
        3 / A3 Love Theme
        4 / B1 Dolphin
        5 / B2 Sabena
        6 / B3 Leo Theo
        7 / B4 Viento Calido
        8. Your Move

        Greg Foat

        Symphonie Pacifique

          Foat has become a versatile mainstay in UK jazz through an acclaimed series of albums on Jazzman and Athens Of The North, moving from soul-jazz workouts to library music to cinematic, haunting compositions and pastoral acid folk. ‘Symphonie Pacifique’ goes expansive and widescreen, building a lush soundscape using choral textures, harp and tubular bells on the atmospheric ‘After The Storm’ alongside sensual groove-based tracks like the undulating ‘Anticipation’, the album title track and Groove Merchant-channelling ‘Nikinakinu’, all driven by Phil Achille on bass, Eric Young on congas and Moses Boyd’s crisp, flowing breakbeats. Other tracks include a moving tribute to KPM library legend Duncan Lamont on the reflective ‘Lament For Lamont’ and the languid, simmering ‘Island Life’.

          The album is a truly international collaboration, recorded analogue and produced by Greg Foat at London’s Fish Factory studios with strings recorded in Edinburgh and choir in Gothenburg. The album was mixed by Mattias Glava at Kungsten Studios in Gothenburg. Cover artwork is based on a painting by early 20th Century Algerian / Parisian artist Henry Valensi.

          STAFF COMMENTS

          Barry says: Greg Foat has always had a firm place on the shop stereo, and 'Symphonie Pacifique' cements that likelihood with a swaying, filmic mash-up of syncopated hooks, frenetic percussion and effortless, jazzy cool. As perfectly redolent of the genre's past as it is it's future.

          TRACK LISTING

          A1. Prelude
          A2. Symphonie Pacifique
          A3. Undulation
          A4. Anticipation
          A5. Mu
          A6. Yonaguni
          B1. Island Life
          B2. Nikinakinu
          B3. Man Vs. Machine
          C1. Before The Storm
          C2. After The Storm
          C3. Meditation On A Pedal Steel
          C4. Lament For Lamont
          D1. Pointe-Vénus
          D2. Mother’S Love
          D3. Epilogue: Three Tenors

          Part two of our nod to the world of library from Athens of the North introduce Greg Foat journeys into the world of synthesis with good friend James Thorpe. This new LP was recorded in the old Bees Studio on the Isle of Wight earlier this year, a special, different piece of work which I was delighted to receive on ¼ inch tape without warning. Greg's output continues to be prolific without ever tiring, he never plays it safe and is always looking forward whilst having an ear for our musical-heritage.





          TRACK LISTING

          1. Elementary Physiology, Pt. 1
          2. Elementary Physiology, Pt. 2
          3. Balloon Ride
          4. Circadian Rhythms
          5. Diametrically Opposed
          6. Grockle Box
          7. Living The Dream
          8. Platform Game
          9. Stacey's Theme
          10. Photosynthesis
          11. Chronobiology 


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