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Norma Winstone & Kit Downes

Outpost of Dreams

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All are delivered with her unique combination of precision and emotional depth, while Downes moves easily between the roles of partner and subtly inventive accompanist.

BBC Music Magazine, September 20245 out of 5 stars

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Norma Winstone & Kit Downes

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Awards:

All are delivered with her unique combination of precision and emotional depth, while Downes moves easily between the roles of partner and subtly inventive accompanist.

BBC Music Magazine, September 20245 out of 5 stars

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Outpost of Dreams introduces a new duo. Norma Winstone, as always quietly innovative as jazz singer and lyricist, brings her vocal subtlety and poetic sensibility to new pieces by pianist Kit Downes, and to compositions by Carla Bley, Ralph Towner, and John Taylor. The programme is completed with fresh perspectives on two traditional tunes, "Black Is The Colour" and "Rowing Home." Throughout, Downes offers elegantly phrased accompaniment and adventurous interjections.

Outpost of Dreams was recorded in Udine in April 2023.

Norma Winstone: voice

Kit Downes: piano

Contents and tracklist

Norma Winstone, Kit Downes: El
Work length5:05
Norma Winstone, John Taylor: Fly The Wind
Work length3:11
Norma Winstone, Carla Bley: Jesus Maria
Work length4:29
Norma Winstone, Ralph Towner: Beneath an Evening Sky
Work length3:25
Norma Winstone, Aidan O'Rourke: Out of the Dancing Sea
Work length3:34
Norma Winstone, Kit Downes: The Steppe
Work length5:06
Norma Winstone, Kit Downes: Nocturne
Work length5:08
trad.: Black is the Colour
Work length4:34
Norma Winstone, Kit Downes: In Search of Sleep
Work length3:06
Norma Winstone, Traditional: Rowing Home
Work length3:57

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Awards and reviews

  • The Guardian
    Jazz Album of the Month
    July 2024
  • Presto Recording of the Week
    5th July 2024

September 2024

All are delivered with her unique combination of precision and emotional depth, while Downes moves easily between the roles of partner and subtly inventive accompanist.
5 out of 5 stars

Winstone has latterly refined her tone to a steadily luminous delicacy in the upper register and a dark glow deep down, and Downes empathically coaxes her thoughts, segued into his own improv variations in the wide spaces she instinctively leaves.

Outpost of Dreams is a quiet, gentle, even tenderly poetic masterpiece that represents music-making as an organic yet adventurous hub of meaning.
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