Great review of Nightwalk by Death by Piano at Alive & Gigging

 https://www.aliveandgigging.co.uk/epsingles-reviews/rhjb2hjwl1iw96jl0qi7c09ouvelix?fbclid=IwAR0fiBDFyG-RWzXKcLPSWMbp_Kq1BGe0MgZ0l9LIRP30CA42PpjCatIQ56c

More Spotify action for Nightwalk by Death by Piano - big thanks Square One mag

 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WkzxzaGHBcM5N1FAByIMZ?si=-DJ_DDKdTJqy9IdhxGe6Fg

Some great press coming in for Nightwalk by Death by Piano

 https://rocknloadmag.com/news/nyc-dark-pop-duo-death-by-piano-return-with-new-single-nightwalk-23rd-oct/

Coming soon! Thirteen Dances - Johnny Butler's follow up to the critically acclaimed HyperViolet!

 

2 Covid Verses by Heath Common - available on all streaming services. All profits to NHS charities

 

Nightwalk - new single by Death by Piano coming soon to a streamimg service near you!

 

Trevor Watts - The Lockdown Solos - in the Ray's Jazz chart in Jazzwise magazine!

 

Superb review of Crossings by Veryan Weston at J-M van Schouwberg's blog

 https://orynx-improvandsounds.blogspot.com/2020/09/veryan-weston-hannah-marshall-mark.html?fbclid=IwAR3fWaI8BvwYdKgKbORslSlVbTRA-pLCQKT3FFE1ZgAqqzovJW_Wx0JMQcU

Superb review of The Lockdown Solos by Trevor Watts at Point of Departure.

http://pointofdeparture.org/

 

Death by Piano

 

Death by Piano on First Spin on Amazing Radio for Newer Light

 https://amazingradio.us/firstspin

Exit Key - new single by GreyWolf (Death by Piano)

 https://open.spotify.com/album/2j9cMH0q7fVD9BW5jMxstx?si=jkhe_fvERGqp3mrOg7VV5w

Honey Sucker - new single by Kalen (Death by Piano)

https://open.spotify.com/album/0yXaKNeH4tAMuj2MmgRXDV?si=IvRYM4rbTdCvYybQ3OBXfg

 

Add Your Voice! US Election around the corner - Johnny Butler & Peter M. Shane. Listen up!

 https://www.theconstitutionsong.org/constitution-song?wix-vod-video-id=ccf2ca247a514dd18cf4a3fe88d8eb6d&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-kdf11axh

Trevor Watts & Jamie Harris at the Sensory Festival 20/20 - superb live performance

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_57DSXZuUvU&feature=youtu.be

This excellent document from a tour of Brazil is also still available at hi4headrecords.com

Great review of The Lockdown Solos by Trevor Watts at J-M van Schouwberg's blog

 https://orynx-improvandsounds.blogspot.com/2020/08/maggie-nicols-john-russell-mia-zabelka.html?fbclid=IwAR2fYpHSZb1lRo4u_BNyC_GPcCT4Z4sBAxXeeORczMyBW6kjXq3QDoVtonA

Rodeo Mag review of Emergency by Death by Piano

 https://therodeomag.com/2020/06/19/the-round-up-19-06-20/

Big thanks to the Yorkshire Times - Emergency by Death by Piano single of the week!

 https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Singles-Of-The-Week-19-June-2020

Crossings by Veryan Weston now available on Spotify

 https://open.spotify.com/album/2UfYGa1tF86ViWpbemCfhv?si=U-AV1w3pSmO0Y1pub8tubg

Trevor Watts Hi4Head releases on Bandcamp

 https://trevorwatts.bandcamp.com/

Death by Piano Emergency press - big thanks Tinnitist!

 https://tinnitist.com/2020/06/17/indie-roundup-27-numbers-to-take-wednesday-up-a-notch/

Talking About Our Generation - fine YouTube series. latest here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrcLpyBaanI

Review of Veryan Weston's Crossings in New York City Jazz Record August 2020

While his (Mark Sanders') wonderful trio with bassist John Edwards and pianist Veryan Weston is not represented, per se, two of the albums do allow audition of his work in that illustrious company,  though  the  ever-adventurous Weston is at a  keystation  on Crossings. The nine pieces offer up a bewildering but sometimes whimsical array of influence,  none  more so than on “Extinction”. Dig that opening bass groove Weston is laying down,  redolent  of nothing so much as Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”, with Sanders only too willing to join in the fun. The funky groove just begins to sizzle when cellist Hannah Marshall intones the words of William Butler Yeats: “Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths…”  Her  cello-doubled melody inhabits a space

outside but conjoined to everything else, a modal area of “light and half-light” placing Sanders and Weston’s sure-fire brick-and-mortar foundation in stark relief. It is a stunningly effective study in time and contrast, mirrored in an even subtler fashion on the aptly titled “Kalimba Setting”.  Who’s got the melody anyway, Weston’s “kalimba” or Marshall’s wonderful pizzicato? Maybe, it’s actually given to Sanders’ hi-hat, which we hear transforming,  almost without  awareness,  from exquisite echo and foil to rhythmic pillar.

Review of Emergency by Death by Piano in Number 9 reviews

http://number9reviews.blogspot.com/2020/07/music-single-review-death-by-piano.html

Review of Emergency by Death by Piano in When the Horn Blows

https://whenthehornblows.com/content/2020/6/22/death-by-piano-emergency

Owsley Stanley - Grateful Dead podcast!

https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bonus-bear-drops-episode-1-whats-bears

Excellent review of The Lockdown Solos by Trevor Watts from Bruce Gallenter at Downtown Music Gallery NYC

Featuring Trevor Watts on alto & soprano saxes. Legendary UK saxist, Trevor Watts, has been playing creative music (in SME, Amalgam & Moire Music) for more than fifty years and seems unstoppable at touring, recording and creating new music. Although Mr. Watts has several dozen recordings out there, very few are solo sax records. In the liner notes, Mr. Watts mentions being influenced by bebop and other older jazz forms, something he says is still part of his sound. Just yesterday at DMG (7/21/20), we listened to a soon-to-be-released Charlie Parker disc on Hat-Ezz-Thetics (‘Bird at 100’), which still sounds fresh and exciting today, more than 70 years after it was recorded! I have also been a longtime Trevor Watts fan, ever since hearing his work with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the 1960’s, Amalgam in the 1970’s and checking out the Moire Music group in the 1990’s at FIMAV and his duo with Jamie Harris (on congas) in the early 2000’s in NYC.    Each of the eight pieces here are called “I So Elated”, and I can hear that sense of joy within each one. Mr. Watts (on alto) takes a phrase on the first piece, states it and then repeats it over & over, slowly varying the line of notes, picking certain notes in the higher range and stretching them out carefully, making them special in the way they touch our heartstrings. Mr. Watts has a bittersweet (somewhat Trane-like) tone on soprano sax and slows things down a bit for the second piece. After he states the opening theme, he spins his lines around the opening phrase, tastefully caressing the theme as he carefully bends & twists the notes on his way up or back down. Watts slows things down on the third piece, his tone on alto even more poignant, a sort of slow, bluesy, near solemn vibe. There are some notes that Mr. Watts stretches out which remind me of the way Billie Holiday or Robert Wyatt also stretch them out, in a way which will reduce us sensitive souls to tears. When Watts speeds up some lines, I can hear those bebop like licks dancing  in his fingers, the joy of musical ecstasy being released. There are those who consider solo sax (or other instruments) offerings to be indulgent for some reason but this is never what I feel when I hear this one. Trevor Watts has been around long enough to make each piece here work and evoke many different feelings and thoughts. This is truly a tour-de-force! - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG downtownmusicgallery.com

One Man's Jazz - airplay for Trevor Watts, Veryan Weston & Scurvy (Johnny Butler)

https://www.onemansjazz.ca/

The Lockdown Solos by Trevor Watts featured on Peter Slavid's UK Jazz radio show of July 19th

www.mixcloud.com/ukjazz

Veryan Weston's Crossings on BBC6 Music Freak Zone!

big thanks to Stuart Maconie for playing Crossing Out on his FreakZone programme! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l1vj

Death by Piano Q&A at That Music Blogger

https://thatbloggermusic.com/2020/07/16/death-by-piano/

Live & dangerous! NYC superstar Kalen does Death by Piano's Emergency

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1528642287297653

More fab press for Emergency by Death by Piano!

https://www.rgm.press/rgm-recommends-the-singles-43/review/

More positive press for Emergency by Death by Piano @ When the Horns Blow

https://whenthehornblows.com/content/2020/6/22/death-by-piano-emergency?fbclid=IwAR26lAy2O2u0SH5Ui3vGfPd6jAw8knR5C9qwOQrXSp7jv3XTOI7zBrV8pSE

Death by Piano 'timely' new single Emergency - Rocknload Magazine

https://rocknloadmag.com/news/death-by-piano-release-timely-new-single-emergency/?fbclid=IwAR2G13dgwacHh0aOEeGNb71NAtD_dXlOL9Da0w6hlqj-kcGvYEs4MN_tia4

Japanese appraisal of Trevor Watts' discography!

http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~bfj/con15.html?fbclid=IwAR1uWVsICSbs01HPHwgBJztRnqr4n_3MLlZrT9Zq0kedZZx3cGr28NjmV2k

Residual Noise - a very fine blog

http://residual-noise.blogspot.com/

Trevor Watts on Bandcamp - a treasure trove!

https://trevorwatts.bandcamp.com/

Crossings by Veryan Weston. If you are in the US you can order a copy from......

......http://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/

Good songwriter series - Talking About our Generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJULiEWv2p0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2I7nkzk5u7yJ9wUC12j-3TDPqK6SvMci0_aDF4mxmGLfa9wgEn4qJeqs0

Dark Star - New York Times

Great piece! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/opinion/grateful-dead-dark-star-anniversary.html?fbclid=IwAR0Q6wOcLdiDjeuTR5mFm47Cx4nGSROM7GkN-1D3GLKbeBku5j53-ilYhmY

Circuit Sweet on Emergency by Death by Piano

https://circuitsweet.co.uk/2020/06/death-by-piano-release-new-single-emergency/?fbclid=IwAR2XGzNVdxKFWbTxrL04LknW6CGlME7ymZMWAQqHEa8unTY9fakfKbnzFJk

Death by Piano - cool new video for Newer Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXYEmrLFN5Y

Kalen of Death by Piano interview in The Darkus Magazine

https://www.darkusmagazine.com/post/nyc-noir-an-interview-with-kalen-lister-from-death-by-piano

Trevor Watts - The Lockdown Solos - now available at Ray's Jazz at Foyles

CD copies of the critically acclaimed Lockdown Solos by Trevor Watts are now available from Ray's Jazz, part of the magnificent Foyles flagship bookshop in Charing Cross Road in central London.

New music on the way from Johnny Butler but meanwhile......

There will be new music coming soon from NYC legend, ex Beyonce arranger & Levon Helm band member Johnny Butler! Meanwhile you can grab a 12" vinyl version of the critically acclaimed HyperViolet from Rough Trade NYC. If that's a bit of a journey in these weird times you can get a CD from https://www.hi4headrecords.com/catalogue.html#hyper and it's available digitally everywhere!