Album artwork for Vermillion by Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren

Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme 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.

Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren

Vermillion

ECM
Album artwork for Vermillion by Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren
LP

$29.99

Black
Released 07/01/2022Catalog Number

B003559301

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Album artwork for Vermillion by Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren
CD

$19.99

Released 03/11/2022Catalog Number

B003496802

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Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren

Vermillion

ECM
Album artwork for Vermillion by Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren
LP

$29.99

Black
Released 07/01/2022Catalog Number

B003559301

Learn more
Album artwork for Vermillion by Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren
CD

$19.99

Released 03/11/2022Catalog Number

B003496802

Learn more

Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme 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.