Kit Downes

Kit Downes’ Dreamlife of Debris

Kit Downes: piano, organ

Tom Challenger: tenor saxophone

Lucy Railton: cello

Sebastian Rochford: drums

An unmissable opportunity to hear Kit Downes’ highly anticipated and critically acclaimed album Dreamlife of Debris in concert.

The wandering mind is a curious thing, and Kit Downes' Dreamlife of Debris explores its tangents and threads, subtleties and secrets in this stunning project inspired by W. G.Sebald's The Rings of Saturn novel. There is a suitably zero gravity feel to this music, buoyant, orbital, full of whorls and tendrils and utterly bewitching .Kit's playing is highly original and personal, his solo church organ album Obsidian being one of the most remarkable ECM albums of recent years. His three co-navigators on this voyage of discovery are all world-class improvising musicians and their in-flight conversation invites us into a world of restless melody, crisp rhythmic jousting, and a luminous palette of sonic colour and texture. Garnering major attention worldwide, this is an inspired, highly anticipated and critically acclaimed album, already a must-have on the shelves of anyone who is curious about orin love with intelligent, beautiful music

Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, solo recording artis tfor ECM Records. He has toured the world playing piano, church organ and harmonium with hisown bands (ENEMY, Troyka and Elt) as well as with artists such as Squarepusher, Empirical, Benny Greb and Sam Amidon. He has written commissions for Cheltenham Music Festival, London Contemporary Orchestra, Ensemble Klang at ReWire Festival, the Scottish Ensemble, Cologne Philharmonie and the Wellcome Trust. Kit performs solo pipe organ and solo piano concerts, and also plays in collaborations with saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy Railton, composer Shiva Feshareki and with the band ENEMY. He is also currently working with violinist Aidan O'Rourke, composer Max de Wardenerand in an organ trio with Reinier Baas and Jonas Burgwinkel.

He teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he himself studied and now holds a Fellowship.

"An exceptional soloist" Wormser Zeitung“Ittestifies to his world-class stature”-The Guardian “One of the finest pianists of his generation”-Jazzwise“ Considerable chops and flowing imagination”-Downbeat