Ocelot - Ocelot '2021

Tracks list

Ocelot – the new Brooklyn-based trio featuring Cat Toren, Yuma Uesaka,
and Colin Hinton – presents its irresistibly vivid debut album, via 577
Records.

At a contemplative time for the world, the new Brooklyn-based trio Ocelot makes
its debut on record with an album that emphasizes melody and atmosphere, whether
the music is meditative or more volatile. This group features award-winning
pianist Cat Toren, saxophonist/clarinetist Yuma Uesaka and drummer/percussionist
Colin Hinton.

Ocelot represents the culmination of a year’s worth of composing,
rehearsing, touring and local gigging for the band – including an October
2019 residency in New Haven, Connecticut, and a tour of the East Coast and
Canada that deepened the trio’s chemistry and its approach to the
material recorded later that month. Remarkably, Toren was pregnant with her
daughter during the entire process, a challenge made easier by the keenly
supportive relationships in the band. “We’re three friends who
trust each other, converse easily and have tremendous respect for one
another,” Toren explains. “Our relationships are the foundation for
our interactive discourse, which can vary – we’ve performed
concerts that were musically very patient, and we’ve played gigs at bars
that were real bangers.”

Yuma Uesaka: Tenor saxophone, clarinets (Bb, Bass, Contralto)
Cat Toren: Piano, nord
Colin Hinton: Drums, percussion, gongs, glockenspiel, vibraphone

Tracklist:
1.01 - Ocelot - Daimon II (2:51)
1.02 - Ocelot - Factum (10:39)
1.03 - Ocelot - Iterations I (4:44)
1.04 - Ocelot - Post (5:43)
1.05 - Ocelot - Anemone (6:32)
1.06 - Ocelot - Contemptuality (10:16)
1.07 - Ocelot - Sequestration (8:08)
1.08 - Ocelot - Crocus (7:15)

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