Touch And Flee

Neil Cowley Trio

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Release Date: 09 June 2014

Label: Hide Inside Records

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 0797537120621

Genres: Jazz Contemporary

Release Date: 06 October 2014

Label: Hide Inside Records

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 0797537120720

Genres: Jazz Contemporary

Release Date: 09 January 2026

Label: Hide Inside Records

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5060124730318

Genres: Jazz Contemporary

Description
'Touch and Flee' from the Neil Cowley Trio marks a defining moment in the evolution of the band. It is their 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, they 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, repeating riffs and pounding crescendos, replaced, in the main, by shifting, expansive melodies, longer elegant passages, and a broader brush stroke on Cowley's blank canvas.

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. The wonky jazz of Winterlude keeps the head nodding while Cowley's proclivity for atmospheric film scores remains.

Undoubtedly, Cowley's confidence and maturity as a composer comes from his experiences of past years. Where Cowley's previous album saw him composing and arranging for trio and a twenty four piece string ensemble, his position last year as Musician in Residence for UK's City of Culture saw him take a crash course in choral harmony as he composed and arranged for a choir.

Touch and Flee was recorded at the legendary RAK studios with Grammy nominated Dom Monks in the producer's chair. RAK has seen some of the biggest names in music record there - David Bowie, Al Green, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Arctic Monkeys, and of course Adele, with whom Cowley recorded the global hit, Rolling In The Deep.

Touch and Flee is the result of three gifted musicians who think as one, growing together, driving forward. A collection of tunes best savoured in a darkened room, at full volume. They demand attention, but as always, deliver to the listener the most blissful of rides.

Description
'Touch and Flee' from the Neil Cowley Trio marks a defining moment in the evolution of the band. It is their 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, they 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, repeating riffs and pounding crescendos, replaced, in the main, by shifting, expansive melodies, longer elegant passages, and a broader brush stroke on Cowley's blank canvas.

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. The wonky jazz of Winterlude keeps the head nodding while Cowley's proclivity for atmospheric film scores remains.

Undoubtedly, Cowley's confidence and maturity as a composer comes from his experiences of past years. Where Cowley's previous album saw him composing and arranging for trio and a twenty four piece string ensemble, his position last year as Musician in Residence for UK's City of Culture saw him take a crash course in choral harmony as he composed and arranged for a choir.

Touch and Flee was recorded at the legendary RAK studios with Grammy nominated Dom Monks in the producer's chair. RAK has seen some of the biggest names in music record there - David Bowie, Al Green, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Arctic Monkeys, and of course Adele, with whom Cowley recorded the global hit, Rolling In The Deep.

Touch and Flee is the result of three gifted musicians who think as one, growing together, driving forward. A collection of tunes best savoured in a darkened room, at full volume. They demand attention, but as always, deliver to the listener the most blissful of rides.

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2026 repress of 'Touch and Flee' from Neil Cowley Trio on heavyweight brown coloured vinyl. It marked a defining moment in the evolution of the band, spotlighting the ever- increasing brilliance of Cowley as a composer. With long time band mates Evan Jenkins on drums and Rex Horan on bass, they jumped headlong into new territory to present what they described as "our concert hall record" for an altogether deeper listening journey.
Gone were the familiar hook laden tunes, repeating riffs and pounding crescendos, replaced, in the main, by shifting, expansive melodies, longer elegant passages, and a broader brush stroke on Cowley's blank canvas.
What was familiar though was Cowley's power to move through music. Exquisitely graceful movements met with dark haunting passages. And although this was a new direction for Neil Cowley Trio, their personality, and unmistakable sound, still shone through. We hear, for example in the epic, sweeping, Kneel Down a three movement piece containing pulse, power, climax, spaciousness, and then, gentle surprise. The wonky jazz of Winterlude keeps the head nodding while Cowley's proclivity for atmospheric film scores remains.
'Touch and Flee' was recorded at the legendary RAK studios with Grammy nominated Dom Monks in the producer's chair.
Neil Cowley: piano
Rex Horan: double bass
Evan Jenkins: drums
Press:
"It's a recording of hidden depths and on-the-pulse sonic values that signals a bright new chapter in the Neil Cowley Trio story." - **** Jazzwise
"the pieces are varied (gospelly slow-burners, jazzy cat-and-mouse games, systems-music churnings, Jarrett-like churchy funk) and the playing richer and more intricate." - **** The Guardian
"The recording is of excellent quality - Evan Jenkins' drums sound lush with pin-point sharp cymbal sounds and Rex Horan's bass has a lovely twang to it - Neil Cowley's piano is mixed very well so it sits nicely between the two. Full marks then to producer Dom Monks." - UK Jazz News
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