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Polar Bear  - Dim Lit flac album
  • Performer Polar Bear
  • Title Dim Lit
  • Date of release 2003
  • Country Belgium
  • Style Contemporary Jazz
  • Other formats WAV WMA APE MP3 ADX RA DTS
  • Genre Jazz
  • Size MP3 1594 mb
  • Size FLAC 1967 mb
  • Rating: 4.3
  • Votes: 464

Dim Lit is the debut album by British jazz band Polar Bear, formed and led by drummer Sebastian Rochford. Polar Bear were awarded Best Band at the BBC Jazz Awards 2004, giving Dim Lit a platform for small scale success. It was eventually surpassed by their following album Held On The Tips Of Fingers (2005), which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. The album was initially released on Babel Label and re-issued by The Leaf Label in 2014.

Polar Bear were nominated for the Best Band award at the BBC Jazz Awards 2004, while Rochford was nominated for the 'Rising Star' award. Their first album Dim Lit was released in the same year and was a small scale success. Their second record, Held on the Tips of Fingers merged elements of cool jazz, funk, dance music, free jazz, electronica and drum and bass and was, by comparison, a crossover hit, earning Polar Bear a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005. The success was all the more unusual for an almost purely instrumental album. Jin Jin. In March 2015 Polar Bear released their sixth album Same as You, including the single "Don't Let The Feeling Go". This track features frequent collaborator Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming) on tenor saxophone and Rochford and Hannah Darling on vocals.

It Snows Again (Polar Bear) 30. Sounds Like A Train To Me (Polar Bear) 31. I Am Alive (Polar Bear) 32. Woollen Blanket (Polar Bear) 33. Joy Jones (Polar Bear) 34. Happy For You (Peepers) 35. Bap Bap Bap (Peepers) 36. Drunken Pharoah (Peepers) 37. The Love Didn't Go Anywhere (Peepers) 38. A New Morning Will Come (Peepers) 39. Peepers (Peepers) 40. Bump (Peepers) 41. Scream (Peepers) 42. Hope Every Day Is A Happy New Year (Peepers) 43. Want To Believe Everything (Peepers) 4. CD copies of 'Dim Lit', 'Held On The Tips Of Fingers', 'Polar Bear', 'Peepers', 'Common Ground', 'In Each And Every One' and 'Same As You'. Includes unlimited streaming of Polar Bear CD album bundle via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ships out within 3 days. Streaming + Download.

Wareham's charging baritone sax swinger Polar Bear Standing and Ready is counterbalanced by some blurty free jazz, while Julia Biel's vocal Snow could almost be a whimsical Robert Wyatt song

Polar Bear - Dim Lit (FLAC-2004)/08 The Shapes In The Clouds Aren't Always Happy. Polar Bear - Dim Lit (FLAC-2004)/10 Wild Horses. Polar Bear - Dim Lit (FLAC-2004)/02 Not Here, Not Near. Polar Bear - Dim Lit (FLAC-2004)/01 Heavy Paws On The Purple Floor. Polar Bear - Dim Lit (FLAC-2004)/06 Snow. Polar Bear - Dim Lit (FLAC-2004)/Artwork/ - . 0. Polar Bear - Dim Lit (FLAC-2004)/Artwork/Back. Polar Bear - Dim Lit (FLAC-2004)-091117-0009.

1) Polar Bear is a British jazz band led by drummer Seb Rochford. Signed to the Babel Label, their first album Dim Lit was a small-scale success.

Tracklist Hide Credits

1 Heavy Paws On The Purple Floor 6:27
2 Not Here, Not Near 6:51
3 Eves Apple
Cello – Ben DavisViola – John Griswell
8:02
4 Polar Bear Standing And Ready 3:45
5 Urban Kilt
Written-By – Tom Herbert
6:21
6 Snow
Bass Clarinet – Adam Bishop Viola – John GriswellVocals – Julia Biel
4:30
7 Underneath You Can See Too Much
Piano – Robert HarderVocals – Greta Lange
7:00
8 The Shapes In The Clouds Aren't Always Happy 7:28
9 New Dark Park 9:32
10 Wild Horses
Cello – Ben DavisViola – John Griswell
5:13

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – 93 Feet East, London
  • Recorded At – U105
  • Mixed At – U105
  • Mastered At – U105

Credits

  • Double Bass – Tom Herbert
  • Drums, Percussion, Drum Programming – Sebastian Rochford
  • Mastered By – Robert Harder
  • Mixed By – Robert Harder
  • Producer – Robert Harder, Sebastian Rochford
  • Tenor Saxophone – Mark Lockheart
  • Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Pete Wareham
  • Written-By – Sebastian Rochford

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 5028159024468
  • Label Code: LC2821

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
RR CD LP 04 Polar Bear Dim Lit ‎(CD, Album) Rub Recordings RR CD LP 04 Belgium 2003