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Chris Dowding

ALATI: Ascending The Morning

by John Sharpe
February 16, 2023

Although combining poetry and jazz can sometimes be as thankless as mixing oil and water, ALATI has come up with a near perfect formulation. On Ascending The Morning, the three piece band, led by Norwich-based trumpeter Chris Dowding and completed by vocalist Brigitte Beraha and pianist Dave O'Brien, sets to music eight nature-inspired poems by Oxford ...

Ascending The Morning

By Chris Dowding

Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: Birdsong For Two Voices; Sea Poem; Seabird's Blessings; Woods etc; Sea Sonnet #1 In Water; Sea Sonnet #2 Beyond; Sea Sonnet #3 Incidental: Estuary Sonnet.

Holding Hands & Article XI At The Norfolk & Norwich Festival

by John Sharpe
June 2, 2021

Holding Hands & Article XI The Garage Norfolk & Norwich Festival Norwich, UK May 25, 2021 With the UK slowly reopening as the vaccination program diminishes the reach of Covid 19, live performance once more becomes a possibility. Major kudos to the Norfolk & Norwich Festival team for pressing ...

Hymn: Silence, Then Birds

by John Sharpe
February 19, 2020

Under the moniker Hymn, the British threesome of trumpeter Chris Dowding, violinist Sylvia Hallett and electronicist David Ross present extemporized slices of understated minimalism distinguished by aching melodies emerging from a granular scratchy undertow. They maintain a taut balance between repetition, movement and noise on three tracks recorded live in London and Norwich, with outcomes variously ...

Silence, Then Birds

Label: Confront Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Silence, Then Birds; Camouflage, Last Peace; Ourselves, Our Bodies.