22nd July 2019: Rebecca Nash and Atlas’ debut album ‘Peaceful King’ Available for preorder + featured in Jazzwise magazine and BBC Radio 3

Rebecca Nash and Atlas’ debut album Peaceful King is currently available for preorder and is due to be released digitally on July 26th and the 12″ LP (180 Gram – Limited Edition) in association with Diggers Factory (pre order here) will ship out on September 15th.

The second track on the album ‘Tumbleweed’ was recently featured on BBC Radio 3’s J to Z. Julian Joseph recalls the first time he heard Rebecca play and was struck by her ‘beautiful harmonic sensibility’. Peaceful King was also recently featured number one in Jazzwise magazine’s J to Z chart.

The exciting cross-pollination of music, especially discernable around the sphere of contemporary instrumental and vocal jazz, has become a strong, progressive feature of today’s fresh, creative outputs. Keyboardist and composer Rebecca Nash is becoming increasingly visible in this area of the British scene; a major player in Entropi, Paradox Ensemble and Sara Colman’s band, as well as an educator with the National Youth Jazz Collective, Cheltenham Festivals, Birmingham Jazzlines and Birmingham Conservatoire.

In her first major recording as leader, Atlas’s debut release Peaceful King interlaces a panoply of strands – rock, drum-and-bass, ‘70s fusion, soul-jazz and electronica, alongside singer-songwriter influences – into a widening landscape of beauty of wonder. The regular line-up of longtime associates Nick Malcolm (trumpet) and Matt Fisher (drums) plus Thomas Seminar Ford (electric guitar) and Chris Mapp (electric bass, electronics) is augmented here on three numbers by the rich, intuitive vocals of Sara Colman.