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Kit Downes: The Art Of Sonic Curiosity

by Marco Iacoboni
November 11, 2025

Some use the piano to tell stories, and some use the pipe organ to create entire universes. Then there's Kit Downes, who does both, with a sensitivity and talent that have made him one of the most interesting and sought-after names on the European scene. Winner of the prestigious BBC Jazz Award, nominated for the Mercury ...

Album

Obsidian

By Tim Olsen

Label: Jazz/Latino
Released: 2024
Track listing: Leonine; Obsidian; Dutch Treat; Ballade; Winter Journey; Für Ellis; No Parsley [Only Pears]; Why I Fancy Nancy; Morning in Morocco; Portnoy's Complaint

Album

Obsidian

By Kit Downes

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Kings; Black Is The Colour; Rings Of Saturn; Seeing Things; Modern Gods; The Bone Gambler; Flying Foxes; Ruth’s Song For The Sea; Last Leviathan; The Gift.

Article: Album Review

Kit Downes: Obsidian

Read "Obsidian" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
February 3, 2018

British jazz pianist Kit Downes has been previously heard on ECM on drummer/composer Thomas Stronen's first Time Is A Blind Guide album (2015). But in his early years Downes sang in a cathedral choir and took organ lessons. He recently returned to the pipe organ in a series of experimental projects with saxophonist Tomas Challenger, who ...

Article: Album Review

Kit Downes: Obsidian

Read "Obsidian" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
January 9, 2018

In 2013, pianist/organist Kit Downes, along with saxophonist Tomas Challenger, released Wedding Music (Loop Records) featuring Downes on the B-3 organ at Huddersfield University's St Paul's Church. That recording was moored in an ethereal setting that gave it an ambient, but stately quality and the duo reunited under similar conditions for Vyamanikal (Slip Imprint, 2016). In ...