It may have started with his solo album, but once Simon Phillips‘s PROTOCOL became a band, it turned into a fusion force to be reckoned with. With the release of “Protocol V” in 2022, five years after this ensemble’s fourth incarnation, the revered drummer raised the stakes even further, and now he decided to lift the veil on the collective’s work dynamics by issuing a sequel to 2019’s “Studio Live Session” that had been preserved for posterity in Liechtenstein’s, at Little Big Beat Studios
Little Big Beat:
Studio Session Volume 2
Recorded, and filmed, at the same place but at a later date, with the line-up which would cut the next album – Alex Sill on guitar, Ernest Tibbs on bass, Jacob Scesney on saxes and Otmaro Ruiz on keyboards, “Little Big Beat: Studio Session Volume 2” find the combo run through the material from PROTOCOL’s first quartet of longplays as well as the leader’s “Symbiosis” album. To be out on November 21st, it’s listed as a vinyl-only offering at this time, but everything can change, of course.
1. Celtic Run
2. Narmada
3. You Can’t But You Can
4. Azorez
5. First Orbit
6. Midair Decision
7. Circle Seven
8. Manganese
