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Kit Downes
Kit Downes is a British BBC Jazz Award winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, solo recording artist for ECM Records. He has toured the world playing piano, church organ and harmonium with his own bands as well as artists such as Squarepusher, Thomas Strønen and Django Bates. He has written commissions for Cheltenham Music Festival, London Contemporary Orchestra, Stavanger Konserthus, Rewire Festival, Cologne Philharmonie, BBC Radio 3 and the Wellcome Trust, as well as collaborating with film-makers, video game developers and classical composers. Downes performs solo pipe organ and solo piano. He also plays in collaborations with saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy Railton, composer Shiva Feshareki and with the band 'ENEMY'. He is also currently working with fiddle-player Aidan O'Rourke, composer Max de Wardener, Berlin-based jazz avant-gardist Oliver Steidle's 'Killing Popes' and with singer/photographer Paula Rae Gibson. He teaches piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music where in 2019 he was awarded a Fellowship. He used to teach at the Purcell School of Music and is also a patron of the ‘Musical Keys’ charity. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Downes) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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Castles Made of Sand
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Sister, Sister
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Silver Light
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Even Now I Think of Her
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Sculptor

Albums

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Exhaust

2025
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The Betrayal (feat. ENEMY)

2023
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365 Complete Works 10 (feat. Sorren Maclean & Esther Swift)

2020
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Fiend

2025
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A Short Diary

2023
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Dreamlife Of Debris

2019
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Breaking the Shell (feat. Bill Frisell)

2024
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Vermillion

2022
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Outpost of Dreams

2024
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365 Complete Works 24

2020

Singles & EPs

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Countdown

Single2025
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Kasei Valles

Single2024
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The Steppe

Single2024
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Monks

Single2025
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Este a Székelyeknél

Single2024
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Neglecting Number One (feat. ENEMY)

Single2023
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Sun flex

Single2025
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Who We Are (feat. Matt Calvert & Adam Kovacs)

Single2024
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Two Twins

Single2024
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Black Is the Colour

Single2024

Videos

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SONOR Artist Family: Benny Greb Brassband - Soulfood

SonorDrumTube180K views
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Sebastian Rochford, Kit Downes - Silver Light (live at mu) | ECM Records

ECM Records10K views
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Aidan O'Rourke & Kit Downes - Do people still do this?

picturemaker13K views
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Benny Greb's MOVING PARTS ("Good Question" full song)

Benny Greb779K views
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Enemy - Sun Flex from 'Fiend' - Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren

Edition Records1K views
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Kansas Smitty's Virtual Jazz Bar // Bobbl's Song by Kit Downes

Kansas Smitty's774 views
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Benny Greb´s Moving Parts / Soulfood

Benny Greb474K views
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Kit Downes – Obsidian 'Rings Of Saturn' | ECM Records

ECM Records20K views
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MEINL DRUM FESTIVAL 2015 – Benny Greb’s Moving Parts “September”

MEINL Cymbals228K views

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