The Vampires - Skydancer

Proud of the Vampires 8th album, Skydancer, our now. Check it out.

★★★★ MOJO (UK)
"Two decades in, the Australian jazz quartet favour subtlety over virtuosity... they weave textural experiments into a seductive melodic quest."

★★★★ Jazzthetik (DE) (translated from German)
"A thoroughly distinctive, deeply appealing and remarkably mature-sounding approach... true aesthetes."

JazzWeekly (USA) — George W. Harris
"These vampires don't suck."

Jazz Views (UK) — Tim Larsen
"A group that has spent two decades refining a musical language all their own... jazz, dub, folk melody, and a fondness for repetition all find their way into the band's music, though rarely in predictable ways." ...."Still moving in your head after the room goes quiet."

UK Vibe (UK)
"An album to give yourself up to, letting the thoughtful, hypnotic and deeply listenable music sink in."

Jazzda (PL) — Robert Kozubal (translated from Polish)
"This is the absolute top tier of Australian jazz... Skydancer is an absolute must-have. The Vampires still bite — but with class these days."
"A wild yet piercingly sad trumpet in which the spirit of our master, Tomasz Stańko, clearly stirs."

Esensja (PL) — Sebastian Chosiński (translated from Polish)
"Sorrow and hope intertwine throughout Skydancer, but hope ultimately wins out... music that can make you start shifting your weight rhythmically from foot to foot, but can also make you sit down on a roadside stone to worry about the future of the world."

Jazz Journal (UK) — Album Recommendation

Radio France — Au Cœur du Jazzncemusique/podcasts/au-coeur-du-jazz/the-vampires-20-ans-de-textures-sonores-australes-6222883 — Artist of the Week

33thrid Radio (UK) - airplay

Radio RDC (PL) - airplay

The Wire (UK) - review - "bubbling with disco and reggae.. their buoyant grooves recall Swedish trumpeter Goran Kajfeš’s grittier, more globally minded Subtropic Arkestra"