
18/07/2025
Released TODAY on New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings!
Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall - Triangles
https://newjazzandimprovisedmusicrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/triangles
Head on over to Bandcamp to pick up a copy or catch Olivia and Adam at their album launch tonight at Unitarian Chapel, Manchester.
Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/oliviamoore/1699489
Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall - Triangles
Moore and Fairhall’s debut duo album brings Indian classical music, American folk music and contemporary jazz together in a highly individual manner. The improvisational aspects of the source traditions are used as an opportunity to blend disparate compositional materials and soloing vocabularies in a subtle way, resulting in a distinctive duo idiom that extends the performers’ established artistic voices.
The format of accordion and violin is particularly well suited for this material; Olivia switches between violins depending on whether the material is Indian or Western in origin, and Adam switches between a tradition Stradella accordion (for highly rhythmic, folk-based playing) and a free bass accordion (for more contrapuntal playing). The repertoire is a mixture of original pieces, Appalachian folk tunes and pieces inherited by Olivia from her Indian teacher. All are approached with an overall sense of creative improvisation.
“Nourished by Indian and jazz traditions, but with an elegance that comes from her classical training, Olivia Moore’s violin has an Eastern tang that is genuinely entrancing” – Manchester Evening News
�“A hugely accomplished instrumentalist” – The Wire
“Adam Fairhall is a total star” – Independent on Sunday
This release was made possible with grateful support from Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants.
New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
GemArts
Adam Fairhall
Olivia Moore