Alex Munk's "flying Machines" at Seven

Flying Machines is the new band from guitarist LCoM alumnus Alex Munk, featuring some of the UK’s brightest young jazz stars. Flying Machines has established a sound that is entirely its own, fusing rock guitar improv with anthemic melodies and lusciously textured soundscapes.
FLYING MACHINES play emotive and dramatic music, drawing upon influences as diverse as jazz, pop, progressive rock and metal to create an utterly unique and modern sound. Centred on Alex Munk's unique compositional approach, Flying Machines fuse visceral, rock-out guitar improv with anthemic melodies and lusciously textured soundscapes. It's a sound shot through with the here and now of London's cutting-edge music scene, a decadent mash up of free-wheeling improvisations, prog rock energy and ambient meditations that never detracts from the emotive lyricism at the music's core. ...

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Flying Machines is the new band from guitarist LCoM alumnus Alex Munk, featuring some of the UK’s brightest young jazz stars. Flying Machines has established a sound that is entirely its own, fusing rock guitar improv with anthemic melodies and lusciously textured soundscapes.
FLYING MACHINES play emotive and dramatic music, drawing upon influences as diverse as jazz, pop, progressive rock and metal to create an utterly unique and modern sound. Centred on Alex Munk's unique compositional approach, Flying Machines fuse visceral, rock-out guitar improv with anthemic melodies and lusciously textured soundscapes. It's a sound shot through with the here and now of London's cutting-edge music scene, a decadent mash up of free-wheeling improvisations, prog rock energy and ambient meditations that never detracts from the emotive lyricism at the music's core.

'Sweet, lyrical passages blend with impossible prog-like time signatures to create a fresh, modern sound with its own distinctive character' –LondonJazz

'Incredible musicianship, tight and crisp' – Jazz FM

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