Wonder Trail, by Dinosaur

Wonder Trail

by Dinosaur

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matthew_mackerras Headhunters II. Awesome. Favorite track: Quiet Thunder.

freejazzy Lots is coming from different ends and genres of music. Good the trumpet appears to lead the way to the center every now and then. Favorite track: Quiet Thunder.

Hagbard Fascinating throughout and a real jam. fantastic and whimsical album. Favorite track: Quiet Thunder.

cca197 Great new track. Look forward to playing the vinyl.

David Battisby Just fantastic. Even my baby grandson loves it and demands me to play it, especially Wonder Trail to which he jigs around.

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1.	Renewal (part I) 03:20	buy track
2.	Quiet Thunder 05:41	buy track
3.	Shine Your Light 04:52	buy track
4.	Forgive, Forget 02:27	buy track
5.	Old Times' Sake 03:49	buy track
6.	Set Free 04:04	buy track
7.	Swimming 04:56	buy track
8.	Renewal (part II) 03:24	buy track
9.	And Still We Wonder 04:00	buy track

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Dinosaur’s second album is as electrifyingly different as anyone who knows Laura Jurd’s track record would expect. Never one to be labeled, the fearsomely talented and multiple award-winning Jurd has a Miles-like way of taking her work and tuning it to illuminate a vast array of musical worlds. She’s done orchestrated and meticulously composed; jazz rock grooves; electronic minimalism; mainstream jazz and now, with her new album, Wonder Trail, and band Dinosaur, keyboard maestro Elliot Galvin to the fore, she’s plundered the synth-pop of the 1980s for a new sound. But this is not gratuitous borrowing, or any kind of hipsterish, retro post-modernism. For one, these are very current sounds (Broen’s an indie band with similar reference points that comes up in conversation). And for two, Jurd and Galvin use the poptastic-ness of the keyboard sound as a sort of tin opener to get into all kinds of serious musical areas - improvisation, vocodered strangeness, strutting rockishness, bucolic folkiness. But, as with any proper stylistic amalgam, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Wonder Trail, whilst being a stations of the cross tour through an array of musical influences/interests, synthesises the experience (in more ways than one). It’s the use of the synth as the core sound that brings it all together, the other instruments queued in by its stabs and swirls, energised and contextualised. Within, around and over this hovers Jurd’s clear-toned trumpet sound which manages to be hot and cool without any apparent expenditure of energy - poised is the word I suppose, but that belies the power and incisiveness of her improvising and technique.

Laura is keen to join the tricky task of placing the music on some kind of stylistic map. “There’s two vocals on the album. Plus one track with a scattering of vocals... something to bear in mind. The pop / folk influence is definitely there. There's certainly more of that in there than the second Viennese school! Perhaps it could be described simply as 'synth-pop meets jazz band'. I quite like the clarity of that. Personally I'd love to filter that down further and say - 'Dinosaur is a trumpet-led, instrumental band'. That way it's left to the music to explain the rest - which is something unique and personal for every listener.”

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released May 4, 2018

All music by Laura Jurd
Recorded at Giant Wafer Studios, Wales on 27th - 31st October 2017
Recorded and Mixed by Sonny Johns
Mastered by Tom Leader

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Mercury shortlisted band Dinosaur continue to surprise and impress with their remarkable new album ‘Wonder Trail’.

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