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Vyamanikal

By Kit Downes

Label: Slip Imprint
Released: 2016
Track listing: Apicha; Bdhak; Sa; Vistri; Jyotir; Maar-ikar; Nya-aya.

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Kit Downes Tom Challenger: Vyamanikal

Read "Vyamanikal" reviewed by Duncan Heining

by Duncan Heining
July 17, 2016

This a beautiful and elegiac record but one that is not afraid to walk in the shadows. Other artists have utilised the combination of saxophone and organ--John Surman and Howard Moody's Rain on the Window and Jan Garbarek and Kjell Johnsen's Aftenland spring to mind. However, Kit Downes and Tom Challenger's Vyamanikal is quite different in ...

Article: Album Review

Kit Downes and Tom Challenger: Vyamanikal

Read "Vyamanikal" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 24, 2016

Five churches, five church organs and a saxophone or two: the instrumentation to be found on Vyamanikal, the British duo of Kit Downes and Tom Challenger's follow-up to Wedding Music (Loop Collective, 2013). Downes (ENEMY, Tricko, Troyka) and Challenger (Brass Mask, Ma, Dice Factory) recorded Vyamanikal during a 2015 residency at Aldeburgh Music. The ...