Artist: JackOut
Title: Saturnalia
Cat Number: SLAMCD280
Year released: 2010
Format: CD & all digital platforms
Barcode: 5028386028024
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The album ‘Saturnalia’ by JackOut is the product of three London-based musicians, Gary Curson, Justin Paterson and Margo Sagov, who began to experiment with combining programmed beats and backing tracks with live and real-time playing in a home studio in the mid-1990’s.
Although the compositions were not necessarily derived from traditional instantaneous collective live performances, they were motivated by an attitude of improvisation in the idiom of modern jazz, by inventing and extending the sonic palette.
Gary Curson: alto and soprano saxes; dee-dar
Justin Paterson: drums & percussion; programming; sampling, keyboards
Margo Sagov: programming; sampling; electric and bass guitars; keyboards
with guests: Roberto Bellatalla: double bass (tracks 1, 3 and 8)
John Murray: electric bass (tracks 2 and 4
Mo Nazam: guitar sample (track 8)
“This is highly personal music. It explores freedoms that might be denied to purely acoustic performers. Curson brings his considerable versatility to the table; a freely improvising jazz alto and soprano player, he finds room to explore both, while moving smoothly above the group’s personal sound strata. Sagov is actually an architect but here provides a highly personal take on pop and world music on keyboards and electric and bass guitars. Paterson runs through the percussion spectrum, programming, sampling and generally manipulating the direction of the music.” – Barry McRae, Jazz Journal
Composed by Gary Curson, Justin Paterson and Margo Sagov.
Recorded 1997-2000 & 2009; remixed and mastered 2009.
Recorded and mixed at Brookfield Studio, Highgate, London.
Mixes enhanced at Vestry Hall Studio 2, Ealing, London.
Mastered by Ian Shepherd at SRT, Cambridge.
Recording engineer: Margo Sagov.
Produced by Justin Paterson and Margo Sagov.