"Sirenians" - Utrecht Deep Artment

Utrecht Deep Artment
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  • artist:Utrecht Deep Artment
  • featured artist:Michael Baird
  • release year:1997
  • style(s):Jazz, Contemporary
  • country:Netherlands
  • formats:CD (Compact Disc)
  • record posted by:SWP Records
  • label:SWP Records
  • publisher:Sharp Wood Music Publishing
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Utrecht was as far as the Romans got - the end of the road. By the year 750, Utrecht had become quite a place of learning, with as many as twenty monasteries. Whilst Amsterdam was still just mud, Utrecht had in reality been the capital of modern-day Holland for centuries. We, the members of Michael Baird's project 'Utrecht Deep Artment', are modernists, you gotta live somwhere, and we live in Utrecht.
Utrecht Deep Artment dream, chirp and swing. There is a continual tightrope act going on, between humour and seriousness, improvisation and composition and, indeed, between abstraction and concrete, deep swinging structures. From the first notes onwards, Sirenians pulls the listener into the deep, into a world that floats between dreaming and waking. This music is original down to its innermost fibre and defies any attempt to categorize it.