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Medna Roso from PJEV - Kit Downes - Hayden Chisholm

"Medna Roso" is a glorious recording featuring BBC Jazz Award-winning and Mercury nominated artist Kit Downes on organ, New Zealand saxophonist Hayden Chisholm – known for his distinct microtonal tuning system – contributing on alto saxophone, shruti box, analogue synthesizer, throat singing, and vocals from PJEV, a female a cappella vocal quintet from the Balkans, that preserves and cherishes traditional vocal music from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[musicollage]

Sebastian Rochford + Kit Downes — A Short Diary. 2023 : ECM 2749.

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lucy railton & kit downes

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Ben van Gelder - Manifold - chamber jazz with Kit Downes on pipe organ

The latest record by saxophonist and composer Ben van Gelder (1988) is a mesmerizing tribute to the complexity of human nature. Delivered by an impressive international octet, Manifold showcases a broad and dynamic musical spectrum. The music is inspired by a fascination with the church organ. Van Gelder authentically reveals the underappreciated versatility of this majestic instrument, masterfully executed by the highly acclaimed Brittish organist Kit Downes. The organ breathes, propels, and is driven by an endless flow of air. To Van Gelder this symbolizes an exchange between our physical existence and a world that transcends our understanding. The music is a reflection of the times we live in, where it is made plain that that the symbiosis between audience and musicians is essential. A concert is a shared experience, and this album underscores the collective spiritual act that a live performance aims to manifest. In addition to celebrating the complexity of human nature, the music is a call to embrace what binds us. Ben van Gelder - alto saxophone and flute Kit Downes - pipe organ Fuensanta - voice and lyrics Joris Roloefs - bass clarinet Hristo Goleminov - tenor saxophone Jean-Paul Estiévenart - trumpet Antoine Pierre - drums Tijs Klaassen - bass All compositions and arrangements by Ben van Gelder

[caviarsonoro]

Even Now I Think of Her

[steamedtangerine]

Kit Downes - Dreamlife of Debris (EPK) | ECM Records

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06.10.2024

sunday ~ 06.10.2024

bill frisell, andrew cyrille, kit downes - may 4th

bill frisell, andrew cyrille, kit downes - untitled 23

bill frisell, andrew cyrille, kit downes - kasei valles

bill frisell, andrew cyrille, kit downes - el

bill frisell, andrew cyrille, kit downes - southern body

bill frisell, andrew cyrille, kit downes - sjung herte sjung

bill frisell, andrew cyrille, kit downes - two twins

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Co w jazzie piszczy [sezon 2 odcinek 35]

premierowa emisja 2 października 2024 – 18:00 Graliśmy: Joachim Kuehn French Trio “Homogeneous Emotions” z albumu “The Way” – ACT Music Bill Frisell / Andrew Cyrille / Kit Downes „Two Twins” z albumu “Breaking The Shell” – Red Hook Records  Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten (Exit) Knarr “Ability” z albumu “Breezy” – Sonic Transmissions Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Espen Berg “Climbing” z albumu…

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... And Rest.

Chris Hyson and Kit Downes.

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PJEV, Kit Downes & Hayden Chisholm — Medna Roso (Red Hook)

Photo by Niclas Weber 

Medna Roso by PJEV / Kit Downes / Hayden Chisholm

The pipe organ is one of music’s most spiritual sounds. It spans enormous range, from flute-into-piccolo trills at the high end to gut-swirling foghorn blasts at the low. If you grew up in a church that had one — I did — the pipe organ probably sounds the way you imagine god sounding: enveloping, all-forgiving, luminous and full of power. All of which is to say that it is a pretty important piece of Medna Roso, but not, rather surprisingly, not an all-consuming or overwhelming piece. This live performance brings together the surging power of pipe organ with haunted threads of saxophone and the buzzing, close harmonies and dissonances of a female a capella vocal quintet from Zagreb.

The disc presents a live performance in Cologne, Germany in 2021, which British jazz and classical keyboardist Kit Downes played the massive pipe organ at the Agneskirche, while New Zealand reedist Hayden Chisholm added saxophone, shruti box, analogue synthesizer and throat singing. PJEV — that is, a collective comprised of five women singers from the Balkans — joined in the haunting, minor-key songs of their region. This is a remarkable, stirring piece of work that works right into your bones.

The concert intersperses traditional songs from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia sung in their original languages with freeform instrumental interludes. The songs put the very human sound of longing, remembering, mourning and celebrating at the forefront; the instrumental breaks suggest a large-scale spiritual and historical context. “Što si setna, nevesela,” a Serbian song from Štrpce village in Kosovo whose title means something like “Why are you unhappy?” begins with a single voice against a silvery vibration. The melody winds sinuously in and among notes, the Eastern influence prominent in the singer’s flickering, note-shifting lament. The group sings together afterwards in the Serbian song, “Oj djevojko, janje umiliato” (“Oh the little lamb,” roughly), largely in strong, brash unison, but with sudden clashing dissonances and shadowy harmonies. The primal way in which their voices challenge and support each other is extremely moving.

The interludes bring pipe organ and saxophone up to the front, the sax flitting meditatively against long surging tones of organ. In “Interlude III” Chisolm’s tones fade out as Downes erupts in roiling, obliterating chords, and then you hear the sax again in an almost human cry atop it. In “IV” breathy tones melt into lingering auras of organ sound. The music takes shape out of a boiling stew of potential.

There is likely much to learn about these spectral melodies — where they come from, what their history might be, how they differ from other songs from the next region over or a hundred miles away. The disc includes extensive notes and translated lyrics if you want to delve into the specifics. And yet, you could, equally, just sit and take in the music, which is strident and spiritual, awe-awakening and mysterious, all by itself.

Jennifer Kelly

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COSTUME APPRECIATION Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock | Marvel's Daredevil Season 1-3

"The same way I would flag unnecessary action scenes, I would flag [unnecessary] shirtless scenes. I remember there was one scene in S2 with Claire Temple and it said something like (Matt takes his shirt off) and I was like...why? No. It didn't make sense [with the scene]." - Charlie Cox

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「QUMARION（クーマリオン」は、「CLIP STUDIO PAINT」 2013-08-03

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ATTN: Just popping by to say that if you are purchasing the new kits today - particularly the Urban Homage kit - be sure to use the creator code "EBONIX" at checkout!

Collab creators do not make any percentage of the revenue after release, they're just paid a flat rate up front, so if you want a little of the proceeds to go to the creator, use code "EBONIX" at checkout (it costs you nothing!!!). Also worth noting that because they had some issues with codes in the app today, creators will apparently receive 10% commission instead of 5% commission the next 48 hrs. (LilSimsie shared this in her overview video!)

Again, code "EBONIX" at checkout. Support black creators!

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🌙 Sword master & Master diviner

[kinreads]

No I’m ok, it’s just the way that Jesper is probably one of the first men that Inej has felt safe with since the menagerie and Inej is one of the only people who loves Jesper fully and unconditionally regardless of his faults and now they have to leave each other for separate goals that got me for a second there

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Even Now I Think of Her

Music is my best ally. have a nice day :)