Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell & Alya Al Sultani
Release Date: 30 January 2026
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078023526
Description
The poetry of top UK pianist Robert Mitchell, whose own playing here accompanies the distinctive improvising voices of veteran legend Maggie Nicols alongside Alya Al Sultani.
Robert Mitchell writes: "I believe we have more than a book within each of us. Sometimes a day provides a sentence. An hour provides a paragraph. A week provides a coma, and a minute provides a whole page. As Wayne Shorter says 'Our instrument is our humanity'. Our most human job surely is to keep our antenna clean and functioning, and to keep as many channels open as possible. As a result - we might even receive the coordinates to the most important treasure: living in peace. The daily distractions, and thus the deliberate weakening of our abilities to work together while benefitting from our naturally occurring 'differences' - are some of the most pressing challenges of these times. It is a great privilege to have these two vocalists give a number of these writings stunningly bespoke clothing to now wear in a part of the universe far from where they were conceived! If any of this can provoke you to turn even the most difficult of days into a sentence, the most lonely of nights into a stanza or the most busiest of periods in to a verse lying somewhere between now and a ideal destiny - the time you have given to this recording has been truly well spent. Thanking you in advance! Enjoy..."
Maggie Nicols: voice
Robert Mitchell: voice, piano
Alya Al Sultani: voice
Tracklisting
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Theo May's Odd Unit
Charlotte Keeffe
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
Let Spin
Maggie Nicols, Robert Mitchell & Alya Al Sultani
Paul Yusuf McCormack
Anthony Joseph
Benjamin Bagby
Nicky Lawrence
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