Ancient Infinity Orchestra - It's Always About Love (2025)

Based in the North of England. Ancient Infinity Orchestra is a joyous large ensemble that has communal music-making at the heart of everything they do. And that includes the melodies that flow out of their new album It’s Always About Love which blossom with uplifting improvised contributions that circle around bandleader Ozzy Moysey’s beautiful compositions; generous sonic gifts of healing and repair.

The 15-member Spiritual Jazz ensemble has a distinctive line-up: two double basses, harp, saxophones, clarinets, violin, viola, cello, oboe, flutes, mandolin, congas, piano, drum kit, with bells, shakers and other percussion instruments scattered on the floor of live sets and recording sessions, ready for members to use whenever the spirit takes them. This orchestration, and the overlap between membership and friendship, gives Ancient Infinity Orchestra a sound that is at once expansive and intimate, earthy, and cosmic, constantly shifting yet grounded in shared intention.

Ancient Infinity Orchestra can be described as melody-driven improvised music, made by people who are deep into different types of traditional music, including folk, jazz and classical. “The tunes are a vessel,” he says, “with everyone doing their thing. It exists so that my friends can be musically fulfilled.”

“There is a need for love and connectedness. You pour the love you have into the music and people listening can feel it”

"With compositions that masterfully lean into elements of folk and underpinned by uplifting orchestral scores and exuberant chant-like vocals, highlights throughout the album include the rousing and gloriously frenetic energy of ‘The Seeker’, the playful summer-tinged ‘Nilgoon’ and the somewhat nostalgia-inspired ‘Old Friends’. And while ‘River of Light’ found the Orchestra paying due reverence to the works of Pharoah Sanders through the track ‘Pharoah Sings’, ‘It’s Always About Love’ takes the time to express its affection for the great Don Cherry via ‘Chant for Don Cherry’ which is an elegantly-paced and joyful number that I couldn’t imagine Cherry being prouder to have been gifted."

TRACKLIST

1. Ancient Infinity Orchestra - All I Can Say of the Blossoms
2. Ancient Infinity Orchestra - Golden Meadow
3. Ancient Infinity Orchestra - Chant for Don Cherry
4. Ancient Infinity Orchestra - Joy of a Natural World
5. Ancient Infinity Orchestra - Nilgoon
6. Ancient Infinity Orchestra - The Seeker
7. Ancient Infinity Orchestra - Old Friends
8. Ancient Infinity Orchestra - At Yoshino Mountain