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Uroboro is a band of bandleaders. They play nakedly romantic, passionate music which can also travel strange and disturbing territories. Keith Jafrate’s compositions are designed to be completed through improvisation, so in a way they are never finished. But they are far from random, creating focused, narrative music that is lyrical, beautiful and fierce, passing through a range of moods, from balladry to abstraction, via sinuous, funky rhythms and outstanding solo work. Uroboro is Italian for ouroborous, the symbol of the serpent eating its own tail. It’s a symbol of connection, continuity and renewal, processes central to an improvising band, so the name is intended to symbolise how the music happens. Keith’s compositions are meditations on belonging, on the green world, and on transcience and flight, many of them inspired by and sourced from the landscape where he lives in Walsden. They call musicians and audience together into a magical space, a field where journey and exploration can take place.
Laura Cole – keyboard
Anton Hunter – guitar & electronics
Johnny Hunter – drums
Keith Jafrate – saxophones & spoken word
John Pope – bass.
Some responses to their 2023 double CD release on the Discus label, A Story Like Fire:
“...suspense-filled skeletal bass-line with tasty laid back tenor sax, majestic piano and sublime, eerie semi-acoustic guitar. The thing I like most about this disc is this: Mr. Jafrate writes songs which often have a hypnotic repeating groove/melody.....with exquisite solos which rise like smoke into the air and fade away. Both of the discs here are quietly enchanting.” - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery NYC
“....music that a listener can easily get completely lost within...dreamy, immersive...A superb album from beginning to end.” - Peter Thelen, Exposé
“A Story Like Fire is a work of passionate interaction and the search for a new way of progressing, taking Keith’s ideas, dissecting and repackaging them with a joy and sense of adventure that is tempered by mystery and a sinuous charm. The two discs are certainly varied enough to warrant their joining together as one album and provide a pretty impressive and dramatic exploration.” - Mr Olivetti, FREQ
FREE ENTRY with donations for bands gratefully accepted. Supported using public funding from Arts Council England.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Puzzle Hall Community Pub, 21 Hollins Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 2, United Kingdom,Halifax, West Yorkshire
