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First pressing of Ferg's Imaginary Big Band's debut, eponymous album on black 12" vinyl.

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about

After years of Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band gracing stages around Leeds that aren’t quite big enough, they finally got into a studio, not quite big enough, on the 23rd and 24th of February 22’, to record over 25 pieces of music: A wild variety of Ferg’s originals, Beatles tunes, free improvisations, spoken word, sung songs, cover songs, card game songs, made up in a morning songs, outro songs…

The problem is you can only fit so many songs on a piece of 12” Vinyl. After much deliberation Ferg and the Imagineers whittled 25 down to 9. The selected 9 are a snapshot of the varied and ever changing songbook of the band.

The music itself is born out of a fertile period of composition where Ferg was writing at very least a tune a day, many of which made their way into The Big Band’s book in time for those two cosmic days. That recording session is the only time and place some of these arrangements will be played, and as such serves as a high definition snapshot of the band at that time.

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered in Leeds, pressed in Middlesbrough… Untouched by the South, this record will surely join the long history of weird and excellent music churned out by the cultural Northern Powerhouse, set to take the Nation’s Jazz lovers by storm.

The band hope for this to be the first of many records to come featuring many more musicians and tunes, both real and imaginary...

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released February 24, 2023

Alto Sax
~ Tom Richards
~ Hannah Mae Birtwell

Tenor Sax
~ Harry Fowler

Tenor/Soprano Sax
~ Will Gibbon

Baritone Sax, alto flute & Bass clarinet
~ Bess Shooter

Bass Clarinet, Flute & Congas
~ Joel Stedman

Bass Sax
~ Alex Fisher

Trumpet / Flugelhorn
~ Felix Burling
~ Emyr Penry Dance,
~ Sam Ehret’Pickett

Trombones
~ Adam Wilkin
~ Aiden Ruffle
Bass Trombone
~ Oli Smedley

The Imaginettes
Vocals and Keyboard
~ Amy Clark
Vocals
~ Rebecca Herrington
~ Sunday Lendis
~ Rosie Miles

Double Bass/ Electric Bass/Alto Flute
~ Chris Williams

Guitar/Keyboards
~ Ed Allen

Guitar
~ Will Lakin

Piano & Keyboards
~ Nico Widdowson
~ George MacDonald
With special guest
~ Tim Malkin

Noise & Alto Sax
~ Hamish ‘Sonic’ Dixon

Drums and Percussion
~ Josh Ketch
~ Theo Goss
~ Jon Lodder
~ Richard Molton

Spoken Word
~ Lubomir Jovanovic

Poetry & Spoken Word
~ Tallulah Howarth

Double Bass, Electric Bass, Trumpet, Viola & Conductor
~ Fergus Quill

Recorded at The Green Room Leeds
Produced and Engineered by Hamish Dixon and Ed Allen
Mixed by Hamish Dixon
Mastered by Chris Sharkey

Released by Tight Lines Records

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Fergus Quill Leeds, UK

Fergus Quill is a composer, musician and bandleader based in Leeds, UK His projects include Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band, Fergus Quill’s Electric Noise Ensemble and the Fergus Quill Trio. With influences ranging from Sidney Bechet to Boredoms he aims to build on the cannon of 20th, 21st and 22nd century improvised music to find a way forward. ... more

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