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Release Date: 1st Jan 2020
Catalogue No: GB1550CD
Label: Gearbox Records
Length: 45 minutes

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Theon Cross: Activate

Work length4:46

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Theon Cross (tuba), Moses Boyd (drums), Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone), Moses Boyd (soloist), Moses Boyd (instrumentalist), Nubya Garcia (soloist), Nubya Garcia (instrumentalist)

Theon Cross: The Offerings

Work length4:41

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Theon Cross (tuba), Moses Boyd (instrumentalist), Moses Boyd (drums), Nubya Garcia (instrumentalist), Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone)

Theon Cross: Radiation

Work length4:48

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Theon Cross (tuba), Moses Boyd (instrumentalist), Moses Boyd (drums), Nubya Garcia (instrumentalist), Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone)

Theon Cross: Letting Go

Work length7:11

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Theon Cross (tuba), Moses Boyd (instrumentalist), Moses Boyd (drums), Nubya Garcia (instrumentalist), Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone)

Theon Cross: Candace of Meroe

Work length5:47

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Theon Cross (tuba), Moses Boyd (instrumentalist), Moses Boyd (drums), Tim Doyle (instrumentalist), Tim Doyle (percussion), Ahnansé (instrumentalist), Ahnansé (tenor saxophone), Artie Zaitz (instrumentalist), Artie Zaitz (electric guitar)

Theon Cross: Panda Village

Work length5:45

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Theon Cross (tuba), Moses Boyd (drums), Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone), Moses Boyd (soloist), Moses Boyd (instrumentalist), Nubya Garcia (soloist), Nubya Garcia (instrumentalist)

Theon Cross: Ciya

Work length8:27

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Theon Cross (tuba), Moses Boyd (instrumentalist), Moses Boyd (drums), Ahnansé (instrumentalist), Ahnansé (tenor saxophone), Ahnansé (subarranger), Artie Zaitz (instrumentalist), Artie Zaitz (electric guitar), Nathaniel Cross (instrumentalist), Nathaniel Cross (trombone), Nathaniel Cross (subarranger)

Theon Cross: Ldn's Burning

Work length3:59

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Theon Cross (tuba), Moses Boyd (instrumentalist), Moses Boyd (drums), Nubya Garcia (instrumentalist), Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone)

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#1 in UK Jazz Charts Theon Cross strides confidently forth from his crucial role alongside Shabaka Hutchings in the award-winning Sons Of Kemet to unleash one of the vital sounds of 2019.Irresistibly inventive, while at once both serious and witty - Theon Cross plays Tuba like no-one else. An enormous, swaggering bass emanates from Theon's magnificent horn, evoking sweaty clubnights where dance floor bangers sit side by side with intricate arrangements.Alongside him Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd, leading lights from London's Jazz golden generation, provide joyously upbeat accompaniment. Elsewhere Wayne Francis of Steamdown fame guests. Drawing on London's vivacious cutural heritage, the album dips in and out of grime, afrobeat, dub, dancehall and Jamaican roots music. This is an album that refuses to be shackled by the confines of Jazz, or indeed any genre. "A prodigious young talent" - New York Times | "Incredible!" - Gilles Peterson | "Theon Cross crucially embraces the bass and rhythm role with exuberant inventiveness"- The Guardian | "Theon Cross plays the tuba as if it's a Roland 303, generating deep, Flubber-like bass lines as well as wild squalls, percussive pops and dubstep bwaps" - The Quietus.

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April 2019

Cross anchors the hypersonic originals on this recording with well-calibrated tuba lines, holding his equally busy soloists close to the melodic center. With this bottom-up approach to composing, Cross shows that low instruments, too, can gleam in the spotlight.

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