With an ambitious 15-year career spanning 8 studio albums, various collaborations and an incredible record label, Matthew Halsall has firmly established himself as a major force on the UK jazz scene. The gifted trumpeter, composer, bandleader and producer crafts unique spellbinding compositons blending jazz, electronica, global and spiritual jazz influences. He is back with his much anticipated ninth album, An Ever Changing View, releasing on September 8th through his own Gondwana Records. Described as his most experimental yet, the forthcoming album was written whilst Halsall stayed in both a architect’s house with stunning sea views in north Wales and a striking modernist house in Bridlington, in the northeast of England, which he likens to a “landscape painting” allowing him to encapsulate “the feeling of openness and escapism”.

In the studio, Halsall “would almost be like a DJ at points, bringing different elements in and out for people to play on top of”, as he puts it himself. “It was a new and fun way of working, and everyone beautifully adapted to that process.”

An Ever Changing View is both uplifting and balmy. Halsall comments:

“Music can elevate and inspire us, or soothe and protect us. It’s a quality that I hear in spiritual jazz, ambient music or just in the sound of the sea and the wind in the trees. I wanted that quality to be part of the tapestry I created for this album.”

September seems like a long way away but we can already hear the magical and moving lead single ‘Water Street’. It comes with an accompanying video directed by Matthew Halsall, Daniel Halsall and Rich Williams, and you can watch it below.