Polar Bear
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1) Polar Bear is a British jazz band led by drummer Seb Rochford. Signed to the Babel Label, their first album Dim Lit was a small-scale success. Their second album, Held on the Tips of Fingers, merged elements of cool jazz, funk, dance music, free jazz, electronica, and Drum and Bass, and was a crossover hit, earning Polar Bear a nomination for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005. The success was all the more unusual for a largely instrumental album. The album was nominated for a BBC Jazz Award 2006. They are part of the F-IRE Collective.
Their latest album (titled eponymously, released July 2008) continues much in the vein of their sophomore release, focusing on the fusion of many different styles of jazz. While much more dense and lengthy than their earlier releases, early reviews are speaking highly of it.
2)Polar Bear were a Los Angeles-based band led by former Jane’s Addiction bassist, Eric Avery, who formed the band with Biff Sanders, formerly of Ethyl Meatplow, as a side project. They recorded most of their music in downtown Los Angeles, at Motiv studios. Many Jane’s Addiction fans consider Why Something Instead of Nothing? to be the best post-Jane’s Addiction work done by any of the four original members. It was re-released in 2004.
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Dim Lit
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The King of Aberdeen
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Your Eyes the Sea
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Fluffy (I Want You)
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Goodbye
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Appears, Moves And Sails
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It Snows Again
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Life That Ends Too Soon
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Tomlovesalivelovestom
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Brian
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The Old Market, Hove, East Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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The Farmhouse, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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The Junction, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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News
me and pamelia kurstin in brighton
11 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/sebastianrochford
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new album and new label
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venetian snare remix
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another poem by my dad
17 Feb 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/sebastianrochford
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symphony85 and mountaingnat added Polar Bear to their libraries. 5 hours ago
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Sfiera tagged Polar Bear with ‘location:uk:eng:london’. Wednesday afternoon
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ham649ton tagged Polar Bear with fusion jazz and avant-garde jazz. Wednesday afternoon
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