In what has turned into quite a productive year for Greg Foat, the London-based pianist follows up a number of incredible releases for Edinburgh’s Athens of The North label, including the one of the year’s best albums in The Mage, and released another brilliant full-length to close out the year, titled The Dreaming Jewels.

For this recording, Foat teams up with an all-star cast of musicians including drummer and recording engineer Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics, tenor saxophonist Binker Golding (notably of Binker & Moses), and guitarist Hugh Harris of The Kooks. Recorded in Catto’s fully analog basement studio, known now as the mythical Quatermass Sound Lab, the eight song album features a heavy dose of warm-toned jazz-funk, library, and fusion grooves.

Even though this album is only a total of around thirty-seven minutes, The Dreaming Jewels LP is pure quality from start to finish, the kind of recording that you find yourself playing on constant repeat. Overall, another remarkable and undeniably well-recorded albums from one of today’s most forward-thinking musicians and composers.

Greg Foat — ‘The Dreaming Jewels’
(Athens of the North)

1. Sapphire Dreams
2. Eric’s Breakdown
3. The Door into Summer
4. Not That It Makes Any Difference
5. Lake Kussharo
6. Kushiro River
7. This Is Not Necessarily My Answer, But
8. The Dreaming Jewels

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