Improv jazz-rock, says Fulton. We're definitely in the groove-rock category. Nothing gets me going more than playing Miles Davis's Kind of Blue when it's 100 degrees in Providence in the summer. The city can be hectic, Fulton says.
Jazz slows that down.
Some 2 1.2 years ago, the band, except Libby, started playing together as juniors attending the University of Rhode Island. Libby joined in six months later. The music comes first. Alula recorded, mixed and mastered Borealis in January and February at Room 29 Recording Studio in Westerly. It's nine original songs from the band's crate of about 40 originals.