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TRACK LISTING
01 First Light 
02 Stirring
03 Motion
04 Sophistication
05 Outsiders
06 Fingers On The Pulse
07 Electric Fire
08 Majunga 
09 Quantum Leap
10 Metamagic
11 Future Moment
12 Right Conduct
13 Abundance 
14 Serenity
15 Into The Sunset
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RECORDING INFORMATION
All compositions by Phil Bowering © 2021 Flamewave Music. All rights reserved.
Recorded at:
Studio Du Rigi, New Plymouth
the Portal, Tataraimaka
Portal II, New Plymouth
Mixed at the Portal and at Portal II.
Recorded and produced by Phil Bowering
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OTHER
 SINGLES & ALBUMS
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Electric Fire, the long awaited follow up to Psychedelia
Grooves, is an album of instrumental compositions. On this album Phil continues to explore groove orientated, percussively driven hybrid
music, which combines electronica with other instruments
and incorporates elements from jazz, funk and other Strands of Contemporary Music.
Electric Fire represents a shift in focus from the radical perspective of
Psychedelia Grooves to a more organic approach which is more about the evolution of ideas than about challenging the status quo.
Spontaneous and off the wall elements still turn up here and there, while other features, such as the morphing of grooves, have
largely been achieved through deconstruction and breakdown.
Electric Fire has been realised in the recording studio with each track being built up
part by part to create layers of sound and music which evolves over time, with improvisation playing a large part in melodic development. The influence of
the "Coltrane changes" are evident in places, while the title track pays tribute to the extraordinary, pioneering funk bass playing of the
late Doug Rauch (new Santana band).
Best known for his recording work with Steve Garden as Low Profile and
particularly for the highly acclaimed
Elephunk in My Soup (1984) and its accompanying clip,
Phil Bowering was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in Taranaki
where he learned tenor horn, bass and guitar. On leaving school he moved
to Wellington, completing a BA and then studying Jazz Improvisation with
Colin Hemmingsen. Phil began his recording career working on sessions for
film soundtracks and recorded original music for the Concert Programme with Outlines in 1980. The same year he formed the Protons with
Tony Richards and in 1981 the Protons
released a single, Lights On/Modern Homes. Phil had released an album of
instrumental music, Hiatus, and the anti nuclear single Wolves of
Power by the time he began
recording in Auckland with drummer Steve Garden, guitarist Mike Farrell
and others as Low Profile in 1982. Between 1983 and 1987 five Low Profile recordings were
released. Another album, the more jazz orientated Moving Lines 1, was
released 1987. After completing an MA Phil moved to London in 1990 and since returning to New
Zealand has lived in Auckland and Taranaki. [More ]
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