New Album: Berlin Jazz-Hip Hop Ensemble Move 78 Share ‘Grains’

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Move 78 band members Aver, Doron, and Nir met in Berlin in 2017. They began hanging out as friends initially and would endlessly talk about music until eventually, they began collaborating, the first instances of which can be found on the 2018 LP “Dressed For CCTV”, Aver’s second release with Village Live Records. The trio began rehearsing for live shows to promote the LP, re-working Aver’s hip-hop instrumentals with a more jazz-oriented style, soon adding bassist Hal Strewe to the line-up.

The band’s name is inspired by a famous Go match (an ancient Chinese board game) between Lee Sedol, the world champion of Go at the time, and a computer program named AlphaGo. Having been defeated in the first three games of the five-game match by his AI-powered opponent, Sedol stunned spectators and commentators by adapting and playing a move so strange that it completely baffled AlphaGo and its algorithms, leading the program to scramble for historical data to make sense of it. The move, which represented Sedol’s human response, adapting to meet the challenges of an ever-evolving technological world – was move 78.

The Berlin based jazz-hip hop ensemble has announced their new album Grains, released on November 3rd via Village Live Records. The collective has also shared a new track ‘Regular Groove’.
The freestyle jams and compositions of keys player Doron Segal, drummer Nir Sabag, bassist Hal Strewe, and French horn player Meravi Goldman are placed in the hands of producer Aver, whose background is rooted in the UK hip-hop scene. The result is a genre-blurring, experimental blend of textures, tones, and timings.

The band has also announced tour dates, including London’s Jazz Cafe.