Broadway Project - In Finite

Dan Berridge releases ‘In Finite’, the third album from his critically acclaimed BROADWAY PROJECT on Grand Central Records in June 2005.

An all-out composer, Berridge has scored numerous award winning short films and completed commissions for Channel 4 and the BBC. Inspired by the love of avant-garde jazz, hip hop breaks and the cinema aesthetic, the Broadway Project sound is naturally epic. Its soul penetrating grooves are gripped by a deep emotional charge and indeed, the project did initially only take form as something of a creative outlet for Dan’s recovery from ME/chronic fatigue syndrome.

A blessing in disguise perhaps, as within a two years Broadway Project had numerous EPs out on London’s Memphis Industries label, followed by two albums: ‘Compassion’ (“a masterpiece of electronic melancholy” - NME) and ‘The Vessel’ (“Dan Berridge is one of our generation’s finest leftfield musical talents” - I-DJ).

Fulfilling his ultimate aim of translating Broadway Project into a stage performance, Berridge retains the grand scale of his work while delivering a contemporary and unique performance: beats and piano led, with the free jazz aesthetic interwoven throughout. One man and his laptop, this is not. Accompaniment includes some of the UK’s best young jazz musicians, such as Perrier Award winning Matthew Bourne on piano and Riaan Vosloo on double bass, both of whom have taken time out from their own electric jazz outfit, the Electric Dr M, to play on ‘In Finite’.

Of ‘In Finite’ Dan says “It’s my third album, but at the same time my first. I’ve found a sound that I’ve been looking for…something that is of its time, yet timeless”.

Taking the heavy crack of cutting edge hip hop production techniques, he whips his earthy jazz and classical influences into an emotionally compelling frenzy. Ethereal melancholic sounds will seep into your blood, grab your inner core and pin you down whilst simultaneously evoking an overwhelming feeling of breaking free and escaping (a number of tracks were inspired by travels through Eastern Europe). Obsessive, emotive and clever - this is a labour of love like no other.

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