31st July 2015: Ivo Neame’s Strata is Hi-Fi News’ ‘Album Choice’ for September.

“A unified set of pieces in contrasting moods and styles… which aims to engage the listener throughout… and it succeeds.”
Hi-Fi News “Album Choice” for September (2015) (website)
 

Ivo Neame, takes a side step from his octet and other projects to release this exciting new quintet title Strata. Collaborating again with UK luminaries (including three fellow Whirlwind artists) Tori Freestone (saxes/flutes), Jim Hart (vibraphone), Tom Farmer (bass) and Dave Hamblett (drums), this collection of eight Neame originals gyrates energetically with complex written grooves and varying instrumental colors to spark opportunities for venturous, improvised blowing.