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Hi everyone and thanks for dropping by.

Well we're now well into the New Year with winter showing no sign of easing its icy grip here in the UK. But January's complimentary review of "Master of the Game" from balmy OZ certainly warmed me up and raised my spirits no end :

"The album's title refers to Herman Hesse's masterpiece The Glass Bead Game which has also inspired the second track, Magister Ludi. That book is certainly a heady stimulus and Eales's response rises to the challenge, Magister Ludi having both majestic solemnity and flaring imagination.... Among the stream of exceptional compositions and beautifully open improvising, Eales and his colleagues pay tribute to the late Esbjorn Svensson (Lachrymosa) whose own trio never reached such heights" - The Sydney Morning Herald (January 2010)

For the full review click on (Reviews)

If you would like a copy of the new album please send a cheque for £12 (inc p+p) made payable to Geoff Eales and address it to:

Geoff Eales
47 Howard Close
New Southgate, London
N11 1EH

Please let me know if you would like me to sign it and if you would like it dedicated to anyone in particular. The CD is also available at all good record shops, the Edition Records store (www.editionrecords.com and Amazon).

I am currently busy writing for the ELF Trio (www.myspace.com/elftrio). Please do try and come along to our lunchtime gig at St.Martin-in-the-Fields on February 22nd.

On March 13th I celebrate my 50 something birthday with a concert at Pinner Parish Church. Chris Laurence will be on bass, Martin France at the drums. Please book early to avoid disappointment.

I'd also like to tell you about a brand new project that I'm working on at the moment. It is jazz / fusion based and involves a much bigger line-up. We plan to go into the studio later this year with a South Bank concert planned for early 2011.

That's about it for now.

Hope to see you all very soon.

Geoff

(February 2010)