Dreamlife of Debris

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The dreamlike ambiance and melodies [Downes] created were then given extra depth by the contributions of his guests on tenor sax, guitar, cello and drums through overdubbing. The result is a... — Jazzwise, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2019
Catalogue No: 7783755
Label: ECM
Length: 44 minutes

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29th November 2019

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Kit Downes: Sculptor

Work length6:01

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Kit Downes (piano), Kit Downes (organ), Tom Challenger (tenor saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello), Sebastian Rochford (drums), Stian Westerhus (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-11
Recording Venue: St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Kit Downes: Circinus

Work length4:15

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Kit Downes (piano), Kit Downes (organ), Tom Challenger (tenor saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello), Sebastian Rochford (drums), Stian Westerhus (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-11
Recording Venue: St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Kit Downes: Pinwheel

Work length4:07

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Kit Downes (piano), Kit Downes (organ), Tom Challenger (tenor saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello), Sebastian Rochford (drums), Stian Westerhus (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-11
Recording Venue: St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Kit Downes: Bodes

Work length12:41

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Kit Downes (piano), Kit Downes (organ), Tom Challenger (tenor saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello), Sebastian Rochford (drums), Stian Westerhus (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-11
Recording Venue: St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Kit Downes: Sunflower

Work length2:31

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Kit Downes (piano), Kit Downes (organ), Tom Challenger (tenor saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello), Sebastian Rochford (drums), Stian Westerhus (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-11
Recording Venue: St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Ruth Goller: M7

Work length5:25

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Kit Downes (piano), Kit Downes (organ), Tom Challenger (tenor saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello), Sebastian Rochford (drums), Stian Westerhus (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-11
Recording Venue: St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Kit Downes: Twin

Work length4:24

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Kit Downes (piano), Kit Downes (organ), Tom Challenger (tenor saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello), Sebastian Rochford (drums), Stian Westerhus (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-11
Recording Venue: St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Kit Downes, Tom Challenger: Blackeye

Work length5:16

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Kit Downes (piano), Kit Downes (organ), Tom Challenger (tenor saxophone), Lucy Railton (cello), Sebastian Rochford (drums), Stian Westerhus (guitar)
Recorded: 2018-11
Recording Venue: St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

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Recording of the Week, Kit Downes - Dreamlife of Debris

29th November 2019

Finding inspiration in W.G. Sebald's novel The Rings of Saturn, Kit Downes's second album for ECM demonstrates his unique approach to the church organ with a brilliantly atmospheric suite of pieces.

Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes’s Obsidian (issued by ECM in January 2018), extending and developing its processes and core ideas.

But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit’s plan for Dreamlife was to put the organ in a broader context, and also to bring the piano into the larger compositional picture. Musicians in the project are primarily players with whom Downes has had long associations - saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy Railton, drummer Seb Rochford - and there is also a first musical encounter with Norwegian guitarist Stian Westerhus. “I was interested to see how bringing in different people would change the direction of the recording.”

The album - released in CD and LP formats - is drawn from sessions recorded at two UK locations - the 13th century church of St John the Baptist in Snape in the Suffolk countryside and St Paul’s Hall (a converted 19th century church) at Huddersfield University - where the musicians arrived to variously interact with Downes. The instrumentalists meet, as Downes puts it ,”in a space with no singular character”, with a dream-like ambience being created through overdubs and collage. Although the players do not come together as an ensemble, their appearance as individuals in changing constellations influences the direction of the shape-shifting music triggered by Downes’s improvising, arranging and composing.

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February 2020

The dreamlike ambiance and melodies [Downes] created were then given extra depth by the contributions of his guests on tenor sax, guitar, cello and drums through overdubbing. The result is a unique musical experience – texturally and melodically rich, it’s strangely and eerily moving.The dreamlike ambiance and melodies he created were then given extra depth by the contributions of his guests on tenor sax, guitar, cello and drums through overdubbing. The result is a unique musical experience – texturally and melodically rich, it’s strangely and eerily moving.

29th November 2019

The attention to detail and subtle weighing of each player’s contribution is meticulous, and rewards playback through a decent system late at night. For such quiet music Rochford’s percussive contributions are often more implied than heard, once again demonstrating just how sensitive a player he is.

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