Name: Outerstate
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Drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Filip Sowa trade grooves and plaintive melodies to create satisfyingly complex mood music. — The Guardian More…

Release Date: 12th Jul 2024
Catalogue No: GONDLP71
Label: Gondwana Records

Side One

1. The Sum Of All The Parts 2:02

2. Greyscale 5:46

3. KTO 3:26

4. Hammers 3:17

5. Talk To Me I'm Sleeping 2:13

Side Two

1. Spaceliminal 3:45

2. Dreambend 3:14

3. X Is Closer To A 3:33

4. Reverie 2:46

5. Amaya 3:36

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New Release Round-up, Jazz New Release Round-Up - 19th July 2024

19th July 2024

An experimental American master's heart-softening trio, West London's freshest electro-acoustic sound, Norway's leading jazz singer finds herself in an intimate setting, the uplifting new ensemble from a UK jazz veteran and a Russian-American saxman's impressive band of close-knit comrades...

West London’s Kessoncoda are the duo of drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Filip Sowa. Standing firm between acoustic tradition and electronica, Kessoncoda is founded on a unique blend of melodic ostinato-laced piano and unwavering drums. Drawing on their array of musical interests, Fil and Tom take influence from rock, electronica, ambient, breakbeat and soundtracks for film and artists such as Squarepusher, Radiohead and Clark all hot-housed in their unique studio set-up, a shed at the bottom of Tom’s garden. They’re developing a new vision of jazz revolutionized by lulling dance music.

Like former and present Gondwana Records label mates such as GoGo Penguin and Portico Quartet there’s something strongly cinematic about Kessoncoda’s music, like a narrative arc which unfolds through different themes and moods, with an ebb-and-flow of intensity, as breath-taking swells of melody burst into being, eventually to resolve in a wondrous climax.

There’s also a deliberate undercurrent of post Covid unease which is encapsulated in the title Outerstate. “this feeling of being within a group of friends, and you're chatting, and you’re physically there but mentally you're not at all – you're somewhere else, a really weird state of being.”

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Drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Filip Sowa trade grooves and plaintive melodies to create satisfyingly complex mood music.

…The Londoners certainly [impress] on their ramped up jazztronica.

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