Every new release from Quinsin Nachoff is a headline event, a radical

combining and recombining of sonic and conceptual innovations,

ever-evolving textures, powerful melodies and rhythms, that always

open up new vistas for exploration while clearly marking the way

back to what has come before. The album Patterns from Nature is an

unashamedly ambitious showcase for his remarkable abilities as a

composer and orchestrator, working within the space where the

heartfelt collaborative improvisation of jazz meets the adventurous

rigor of contemporary music and the depth and complexity of

conceptual art.

As composer, Nachoff created the closely written, intricately detailed

scores for a pair of large-ensemble pieces. As bandleader, he

oversaw the realisation of those scores by a hand-picked team of

remarkable genre-crossing musicians, including pianist Matt

Mitchell, percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, bassist Carlo de Rosa,

clarinetist Francois Houle, trombonist Ryan Keberle, and the

internationally renowned Molinari String Quartet, supported by a

large chamber ensemble conducted by JC Sanford.

As interdisciplinary collaborator, he worked with physicist Dr.

Stephen Morris, whose research into emergent patterns in nature

informed the project's structural concepts, and four filmmakers -

Tina de Groot, Lee Hutzulak, Gita Blak, and Udo Prinsen - originally

conceived alongside them for a multimedia version of the work,

resulting in the titular Patterns from Nature suite of four contrasting

movements that engage the listener at every level.