{"product_id":"8427328436328-mind-ear-ladder","title":"Mind-Ear-Ladder","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis band was formed in 2014 out of existing musical friends between myself,John and brothers Steve and Matt. The fantastic Mick Coady completes the quintet line-up. I had met and started playing with Steve at Ronnie Scott’s, around 2013, and put this group together to strengthen what we had developed there. Perhaps unspoken, as some of the best ambitions often are, we wanted to work towards a collective contemporary jazz aesthetic and approach that had space for our own sounds and language yet remained strongly influenced by the jazz tradition.\u003cbr\u003eWriting music for musicians you are inspired by is a joy and a privilege, and when these musicians are also great friends, you are bound to create an environment for good music making. Steve and John also contribute excellent originals for this session and, completing the rhythm section, Mick and Matt support wonderfully throughout.\u003cbr\u003eThe title of this album, \"Mind-Ear-Ladder\" is an effort to describe a process of thought becoming sound,and the ladder that must inevitablybe climbed in the development of the mind, and person, in order to actualise this.\u003cbr\u003eTo extend the ogy further-sometimes we might feel like this process of becoming is effortless and sometimes it might feel more arduous. But to be sure, we are somewhere on this ladder at all times and this album title attempts to represent this continuum.\u003cbr\u003e―Alex Merritt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55505592877430,"sku":"8427328436328","price":16.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_9746189_22099879_20250417040011.jpg?v=1744897966","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/8427328436328-mind-ear-ladder","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}