NEW MUSIC FROM NAIM: NEIL COWLEY TRIO releases new album 'TOUCH AND FLEE'
Posted by: Simon Drake on 18 June 2014
Neil Cowley Trio announces the release for their fifth studio album, intriguingly titled 'Touch and Flee' and their newest video for their song "Kneel Down".
Freshly released on Naim Jazz Records on June 9th, Touch and Flee marks a defining moment in the evolution of the band. It is the trio's bravest, most daring album to date, spotlighting the ever- increasing brilliance of Cowley as a composer. With long time band mates, Evan Jenkins on drums and Rex Horan on bass, Neil Cowley Trio jump headlong into new territory to present what they describe as "our concert hall record" for an altogether deeper listening journey.
Gone are the familiar hook laden tunes and pounding crescendos, replaced, in the main, by shifting, expansive melodies and longer elegant passages. What is familiar though is Cowley's power to move through music. Exquisitely graceful movements meet with dark haunting passages. And although this is a new direction for Neil Cowley Trio, their personality, and unmistakable sound, still shines through. We hear, for example in the epic, sweeping, Kneel Down a three movement piece containing pulse, power, climax, spaciousness, and then, gentle surprise.
Official video for "Kneel Down" by Neil Cowley Trio