Gary Bartz and London collective Your Brother’s Keeper have today released their collaborative album Where Rivers Meet via Brownswood Recordings.
Released as Brownswood celebrates its 20th anniversary, Where Rivers Meet brings together Bartz and Your Brother’s Keeper, a collective that emerged from a musical relationship first established through Long’s band Maisha. Developed through several years of performing, touring and recording together, the album documents a shared approach built on improvisation, listening and collective exploration.
The album places Bartz’s saxophone within a contemporary sonic setting shaped by modular synthesis, electronics and acoustic instrumentation. At times, his playing is processed live through modular systems, creating a dialogue between the language of spiritual and modal jazz and a broader palette of sounds and textures.
Across Where Rivers Meet, Bartz’s musical history and the group’s contemporary approach exist in equal measure. Rather than looking backwards or forwards, the album focuses on what can happen when musicians from different generations meet with the freedom to explore, respond and create together.
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