GREG FOAT
Genres: Nu Jazz, Jazz Related Electronica, Hip-Hop, Classic Fusion, RnB, World Fusion, Jazz Related Soundtracks • United Kingdom

London-based keyboardist, composer, bandleader, and DJ Greg Foat is a musician completely of his time and somehow beyond it. His highly original "non-contemporary jazz" utilizes both conventional instruments and an exotic array of unorthodox ones, including harpsichord, tubular bells, and a 15-piece choir. Foat's music relies heavily on inspirations from library and soundtrack music, global folk traditions, psychedelia, hymnody, ambient music, and '60s and '70s pop, soul, and blues. Whether solo, as co-leader of Hampshire & Foat (with Bees' multi-instrumentalist Warren Hampshire), or leading the Greg Foat Group, he has quietly and purposefully dissolved artificial boundaries between musical genres and eras since GFG's 2011 debut Dark Is the Sun. He's also been a prolific recording artist, releasing an album per year, including the universally acclaimed 2015 outing Dancers at the Edge of Time and 2017's Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (with Hampshire), as well as a slew of singles read more...