Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes’s Obsidian, 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.”
Kit Downes Piano, Organ
- Tom Challenger Tenor Saxophone
- Stian Westerhus Guitar
- Lucy Railton Cello
- Sebastian Rochford Drums
RECORDED
November 2018, St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield
