BAND/ARTIST: Vega Trails



   Title: Sierra Tracks

   Year Of Release: 2025

   Label: Gondwana Records

   Genre: Jazz

   Quality:  FLAC (tracks)

   Total Time: 45:24

   Total Size:  201 MB

 



Tracklist:



1. Largo (05:23)

2. Els (06:37)

3. Murmurations (05:11)

4. Dream House (03:15)

5. Clarifantasia (05:46)

6. Reverie (02:01)

7. Murmur (05:19)

8. Old Friend; The Sea (04:37)

9. When This Is Over (04:17)

10. Sleepwalk Tokyo (02:5



Inspired by the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains north-west of Madrid, his home since August 2022, Milo Fitzpatrick presents Sierra Tracks the new album from his expansive, cinematic, chamber-jazz project Vega Trails.



Having cut 2022’s beautifully resonant debut album ‘Tremors in the Static’ as a duo, alongside saxophonist Jordan Smart (Mammal Hands and Sunda Arc), Milo now substantially expands upon that blueprint with his follow-up, ‘Sierra Tracks’, which, as the title suggests, was conceived at his new home in central Spain and adds piano, vibraphone and strings to the mix.



From the epic five-minute opener, ‘Largo’, onwards, there’s a cinematic feel to ‘Sierra Tracks’, as each piece unfolds according to its own sweeping narrative, often wonderfully evocative of the mountains’ wide-open spaces, and also sometimes elaborately arranged with cello, orchestral strings, vibraphone and piano, to evoke their awe-inspiring natural splendour. ‘Reverie’ has a refrain that fades in and out, like a daydream”. ‘Els’ is more firmly rooted in folk melody, while ‘Dream House’ and ‘Sleepwalk Tokyo’ boost a sense of otherworldliness.