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Dim Lit

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Released
  
1 September 2004

Artist
  
Polar Bear

Producer
  
Seb Rochford

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
64:00

Release date
  
2003

Label
  
Rub Recordings

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Dim Lit (2004)
  
Held On The Tips Of Fingers (2005)

Similar
  
Held on the Tips of Fingers, Peepers, In Each and Every One, Same as You, Polar Bear

Polar bear heavy paws on the purple floor dim lit


Dim Lit is the debut album by British jazz band Polar Bear, formed and led by drummer Sebastian Rochford.

Contents

Polar bear not here not near da dim lit


Background

Polar Bear were awarded Best Band at the BBC Jazz Awards 2004, giving Dim Lit a platform for small scale success. It was eventually surpassed by their following album Held On The Tips Of Fingers (2005), which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.

The album was initially released on Babel Label and re-issued by The Leaf Label in 2014.

Reception

The Guardian write that this album "captures (Polar Bear's) unique virtues" and that it "goes straight on to the albums-of-2004 longlist". The BBC call Dim Lit "a finely crafted album" in their review of the follow-up album.

Track listing

All tracks written by Seb Rochford

Polar Bear

  • Pete Wareham — tenor saxophone
  • Mark Lockheart — tenor saxophone
  • Sebastian Rochford - drums, percussion, drum programming
  • Tom Herbert - double bass

    • Additional musicians

  • Julia Biel - vocals (6)
  • Ben Davis - cello (3, 10)
  • John Greswell - viola (3, 6, 10)
  • Adam Bishop - bass clarinet (6)
  • Robert Harder - piano (7)

    • Songs

    1Heavy Paws on the Purple Floor6:27
    2Not Here - Not Near6:51
    3Eve's Apple8:02

    References

    Dim Lit Wikipedia
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