The Groove Period
As a live act, the band were now becoming more and more influenced by the lighter and more fluid rhythms of jazz, with the rhythm section now embracing spacious groove and Latin-inspired rhythms, Wright improvising complex trumpet lines and Ben Page playing analogue-style synthesizers as much as percussion. Although Version’s overdriven guitar maintained a link to the band’s art-rock past, Ross was now a committed multi-instrumentalist with a vocal style that had begun to incorporate folk, Latin and swing stylings.
In 2002, the band signed a deal with the revived indie label Fire Records and wound up Day Release Records in order to concentrate on band work (David Hurn also made the crossing from Day Release to Fire). The band’s second album, Heart Drops From The Great Space was released on Fire Records the same year and was accompanied by the 12-inch vinyl EPTime And Motion Studies Deep Underground. Both clearly demonstrated the evolution of the live band.
The entire band cemented their links with Rothko by providing most of the instrumentation on the 2004 Rothko album A Continual Search for Origins (the first Rothko album following the dissolution of the original three-bass Rothko lineup).
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