Kit Downes, Petter Eldh & James Maddren - Vermillion

180-gram vinyl

Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio program that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures. Downes, whose prior ECM offering Dreamlife of Debris was termed a "work of otherworldly beauty" by BBC Music Magazine, carves out some of his most compendious pieces to date on Vermillion.

Replete with subtle twists and turns, the trio offers its idiosyncratic take on the piano trio format, producing unexpected harmonic alterations and animate rhythmic flashes as they flesh out distinct musical forms. Recorded at the Auditorio Stelio Molo in Lugano, the three-piece outlines a unique design for this instrumentation in clear-cut interplay and creates a profound study of Kit Downes' broad musical imagination in the process.

Musicians
Kit Downes, piano
Petter Eldh, double bass
James Maddren, drums

Side A

1. Minus Monks

2. Sister, Sister

3. Seceda

4. Plus Puls

5. Rolling Thunder

6. Sandilands

Side B

1. Waders

2. Class Fails

3. Bobbl's Song

4. Math Amager

5. Castles Made of Sand

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