Greg Foat 6 Days In Leysin

• 1. Oxygene Des Alps
• 2. Source De Bryon
• 3. Les Airelles
• 4. Zalfa's BBQ
• 5. Forest Walk
• 6. The Pigeon
• 7. Mountain Cat
• 8. Leo & Marina
• 9. Rainy Day In Leysin

London pianist and composer Greg Foat has a knack for translating place into sound and this new record distils six days spent in the Swiss village of Leysin into something between a travel diary and a jazz suite. Joined by Moses Boyd on drums, Alex Burke on guitar and Swiss bassist Elie Ghersinu, the quartet moves fluidly from spiritual jazz to alpine ambient and Italian library funk.

'Oxygene des Alps' opens like a breath of mountain air: spacious, glowing, weightless, all before 'Forest Walk' threads funkier textures into the mist. On 'Rainy Day in Leysin' Foat leans into the reflective, this almost new age qualities of his synths, while 'Zalfa's BBQ' flips the mood with playful energy.

It feels like a musical postcard that's intimate, atmospheric, and touched with the warmth of time spent among friends in a rarefied setting.