Seb Rochford opens up intimate resonance spaces with his new band and new album - beguiling, tender, strange and overwhelming. The renowned London sonic explorer Seb Rochford releases an amazing new band and debut album. Pulled by Magnets he calls the new project and "Rose Golden Doorways" the accompanying debut album, which is the most sublime and at the same time most provocative musical statement the four-time Mercury award winner (Polar Bear, Sons of Kemet, Basquiat Strings) has ever made. Located on a borderline where Doom rhythms rub against spooky saxophone atmospheres, everything here sounds different from what has been heard before: forgotten are type, genre or influence. It is a soundtrack of the mind. An important point of reference for Seb Rochford - after a journey through India, the home country of his mother - was the experiments with tempo and time that can be found in Indian music. In addition, there was an intensive reading of old Indian and Bedouin texts. "Rose Golden Doorways" was recorded by Seb Rochford, Pete Wareham (Polar Bear) on saxophone and Neil Charles (Zed-U, Empirical) on bass in the Old Church, the last Elizabethan church in London and one of the oldest churches in England. The interplay between the acoustics of this historic building and the playing of the three musicians has created a unique spherical sound - the album consists of a series of live recordings without additional studio work. Seb Rochford wanted, in his own words, an "overwhelming, big sound" and so "Rose Golden Doorways" is about big dimensions: a feeling of space, of geology, of tectonic plates shifting - with intimate tenderness at the same time. It has become an album on which instinct and love for the smallest details condense into a big overall picture
