The Will Thompson Quartet

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1.	Jacksin 11:34	buy track
2.	Khalla 06:25	buy track
3.	Pasteur Piece Intro 01:03	buy track
4.	Pasteur Piece 11:50	buy track
5.	Intermezzo 1 02:47	buy track
6.	Rach B 10:01	buy track
7.	Intermezzo 2 06:40	buy track
8.	Assyrian Folk Song 10:05	buy track

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WATIV's "The Will Thompson Quartet" signals keyboardist Will Thompson's return to civilian life in New Orleans after his four years of service in the U.S. military in Iraq, during which he created his evocative and innovative debut album, Baghdad Music Journal. Like that debut, WATIV presents a compelling soundtrack, by turns lyrical and rambunctious, attentive to unusual shifts of nearly tactile textures as well as melodies that suggest specific times and places and rhythms that are as easy to feel as the traditional beat of a jazz funeral's second-line. Thompson, originally from Mississippi, has assembled a band that shares and expands on his palette. It's tempting to call this music "fusion" but it's more than that: it's expression. With guitarist Chris Alford, drummer Simon Lott and bassist Tommy Sciple, Will Thompson plays with the joy of life and freedom of imagination we Americans tend to take for granted. But he's been in war zones where such joy and freedom are hardly imaginable, and that experience imbues WATIV with a little something extra that haunts and enriches Will Thompson's music, lending it both mystery and glimpses of what's really real."

-- Howard Mandel (Author and president of the Jazz Journalists Association) Tracks & Audio

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released April 11, 2022

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WATIV New Orleans, Louisiana

William A Thompson IV, or "WATIV," is a composer, keyboard artist, and electronic musician. His unique music has attracted the much attention from mainstream, as well as alternative, media including NPR's "All Things Considered" and the BBC. His work has been most profoundly impacted by his one year tour of duty spent in Baghdad during the Iraq War in 2004 as a Counter- intelligence Agent. ... more

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