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Seb Rochford And Kit Downes: In The Round at Turner Sims
Courtesy of Sara Lock | Posted on October 9, 2023
When
Fri, January 12, 2024
20:00
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Musicians
Sebastian Rochford
drumsKit Downes
keyboardsAbout
Join Seb and Kit on the Turner Sims stage, as they play A Short Diary acoustically ‘in the round’.
A Short Diary was released on the ECM Records label this year. It was Sebastian Rochford’s (Polar Bear) exquisitely poignant musical response to his father’s death in 2019. All the tunes, except one, were composed by Seb on his grandfather’s piano in his childhood home in Aberdeen. He then recorded them with his friend, BBC Jazz Award winner and Mercury Music Award nominee Kit Downes on piano, adding his own drums as a kind of discreet conversational partner.
This is music as a lament but also as an act of remembrance, ‘a sonic memory, created with love, out of need for comfort.’ It is deeply beautiful, full of hymn-like simplicity and space, yet also human warmth....