David Downes

David Preston - Purple / Black (Vol. 2) (2024) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Oct. 1, 2024

This album is a companion to David Preston’s 2023 debut under his own name: a set of recordings that confounded expectations as much as they delighted audiences. He went into the studio with a coherent set of compositions that focused on texture and mood as much as improvisational virtuosity, and a band of front-rank players whose ability to work outside the confines of genre matched his own. The sessions were so productive that they yielded two albums worth of material, of which this is the second. Like its predecessor, Purple/Black Volume 2 combines the unique talents of Kit Downes, Kevin Glasgow and Seb Rochford into an intuitively coherent unit that explores the carefully crafted material in a way that impresses with its focus and control as much as with its spontaneity. The result is an album that combines the directness and accessibility of mainstream popular music forms with the depth and subtlety of jazz.

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Vin Downes - Good Light to Go By (2020) Music

Posted by varrock at Jan. 5, 2020

Vin Downes - Good Light to Go By (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 228 MB | Tracks: 12 | 51:40 min
Style: New Age, Instrumental, Guitar | Label: Riverwide Records

Vin Downes began studying guitar at the age of eleven. His early interests were in electric guitar, but this all changed when he heard the opening notes of David Cullen’s “Along the Way” on a Windham Hill Records guitar sampler. He immediately immersed himself in the fingerstyle music of Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges, David Cullen, Leo Kottke, and Mississippi John Hurt.

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Downes Braide Association - Halcyon Hymns (2021) Music

Posted by v3122 at July 19, 2021

Downes Braide Association - Halcyon Hymns (2021)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Magical Thinker, DBA-CD-05 | RU | ~ 413 or 150 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 9.48 Mb
Crossover Prog, Pop Rock

Nostalgic reveries can offer a life-line after a year such as we’ve endured. If you’re needing a little pick-me-up to inspire better times, be they from the past or yet to arrive in the future, these “Halcyon Hymns” offer just the ticket. Featuring a soundtrack as lush and colorful as the Roger Dean cover art, this fourth collection from the Downes Braide Association finds the duo at the top of their game…

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Edward Downes, The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - The Verdi Edition: Rigoletto (2013) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Dec. 4, 2021

If there are lingering doubts about the Royal Opera House's artistic renaissance after its mid-1990s doldrum years, David McVicar's gritty and sexy production of Rigoletto should blow them all away. One of the principal reasons is McVicar's decision to emphasize the tyrannical nature of the Duke (beautifully sung by Marcelo Alvarez), and the appalling social injustice that springs from a corrupt leader: his court is a place of physical and sexual abuse (graphically, but by no means gratuitously, depicted). This violence throws the dual nature of Paolo Gavanelli's energetic, insectlike Rigoletto into relief, making his sycophancy seem all the worse and his vengefulness all the more sympathetic.

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Sebastian Rochford, Kit Downes - A Short Diary (2023) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Jan. 19, 2023

On A Short Diary, Sebastian Rochford leads from behind. The jazz drummer’s first release under his own name for ECM is unquestionably informed by recent events in his own life, yet Rochford—a former member of Sons of Kemet and Polar Bear who also works with Brian Eno and Andy Sheppard—settles into a restrained, secondary role. Pianist Kit Downes is the main animating force on an album where the two celebrated British players coexist in a gentle place clouded by melancholy.

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Downes Braide Association - Celestial Songs (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 8, 2023

Downes Braide Association - Celestial Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 67:47 minutes | 1,38 GB
Progressive Rock, Pop Rock | Label: Spirit of Unicorn Music, Official Digital Download

Geoff Downes is a legendary British keyboard player known the world over for being a member of supergroups The Buggles, Asia, and Yes. He has been the powerhouse behind some of the most memorable keyboard driven pop-rock-prog songs of the last 40 years. He has worked with an exceptional caliber of musician from Kate Bush and Mike Oldfield to Billy Idol and Agnetha Faltskog.

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David Cross & Peter Banks - Crossover (2020) Music

Posted by v3122 at Jan. 4, 2022

David Cross & Peter Banks - Crossover (2020)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Noisy Records, noisy 010 | RU | ~ 274 or 117 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 3.02 Mb
Prog Rock

Although Peter Banks sadly died in 2013, this new studio album features some of his work which has never been released until now. On 10th August 2010 he and David Cross got together for an afternoon of improvisation and all guitar and violin parts are from that time. Banks had expressed his desire for this music to one day be made available, so over the last few years Cross asked some friends to become involved and help in making this album a reality…

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Downes Braide Association - Skyscraper Souls (2017) Music

Posted by pyatak at Nov. 17, 2017

Geoff Downes is the keyboardist in The Buggles, ASIA and YES. Geoff Downes co-wrote the hits 'VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR' and 'HEAT OF THE MOMENT'.

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David Cross & Peter Banks - Crossover (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 16, 2020

David Cross & Peter Banks - Crossover (2020)
FLAC tracks | 49:30 | 267 Mb
Genre: Progressive Rock / Label: Noisy Records

2020 release. David Cross was a member of King Crimson during the 1970s and the late Peter Banks was the original guitarist in Yes. The guitar and violin parts for this album were recorded on the 10th August 2010 in an afternoon of improvisation. This is the last album of 'new' material from the late Peter Banks, who passed away in 2013, and had wanted to see this material released.

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David Preston - Purple / Black (Vol. 2) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Sept. 26, 2024

David Preston - Purple / Black (Vol. 2) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 40:46 minutes | 759 MB
Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

This album is a companion to guitarist David Preston's 2023 debut under his own name: a set of recordings that confounded expectations as much as they delighted audiences and again feature pianist Kit Downes, bassist Kevin Glasgow and drummer Sebastian Rochford. Preston went into the studio with a coherent set of compositions that focused on texture and mood as much as improvisational virtuosity, and a band of front-rank players whose ability to work outside the confines of genre matched his own. The sessions were so productive that they yielded two albums worth of material, of which this is the second.

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