Neame presents the music for an 11-piece band, presenting music that has been praised as some of the standout music composed during the lockdown period.
"Formidable Phronesis pianist Ivo Neame unleashes a tour de force of lockdown woodshedding creativity with Glimpses of Truth (Whirlwind), home-brewing an uncannily live-sounding virtual big band, including Canadian trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and London tenorist George Crowley to play accessibly mind-boggling, rhythm-bending orchestral scores, reminiscent of those of Kenny Wheeler and Michael Gibbs." John Fordham, The Guardian
Ivo Neame has ‘assembled a glitzy international line-up that wouldn't physically meet, including London saxists Nathaniel Facey, George Crowley and Jason Yarde, Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman, and Canadian trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, to record these dizzying polyrhythmic parts separately – and picked up the studio skills along the way to fuse the fragments into a thrillingly seamless whole. 'Rise Of The Lizard People' is Neame's musical riposte to conspiracy theorists, represented as a set of thoughtfully articulate solo statements weaving through a wild maelstrom of jaggedly anarchic grooves and cross-rhythmic riffing.’ Jazzwise