Name: Music Spoken Here presents Chris Bowden - The Hypnos Files ft. Neil Bullock & Louise Warren
Start: 2025-04-24T20:00:00+01:00
Location: The Marrs Bar

Music Spoken Here presents Chris Bowden - The Hypnos Files ft. Neil Bullock & Louise Warren

𝐌𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝟑𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐚𝐳𝐳, 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥, 𝐡𝐢𝐩-𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐦 & 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬
𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐷𝐽 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 '𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐹𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑧𝑧' 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑗𝑎𝑧𝑧, 𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛, 𝑗𝑎𝑧𝑧 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑗𝑎𝑧𝑧 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒.
Emerging from the 90s Acid Jazz and Nu Jazz scenes in London, saxophonist Chris Bowden’s music has been described as “true future jazz”. Association with Gilles Peterson saw Chris in the “That’s How It Is” club night house band at Bar Rumba, as well as working with K-Creative and 4 Hero, both projects releasing albums on Gilles’ Talkin’ Loud label.
As a gifted arranger on Jessica Lauren’s “Siren Song” album, he encountered Soul Jazz Records and went on to release his first album “Time Capsule” on the label in 1996. His work with The Herbaliser, one of the best known bands on the Ninja Tune label (run by Matt Black and Jonathan Moore - aka Coldcut), led to the release of his second album “Slightly Askew” on Ninja Tune in 2002. Featuring a 17-piece band including strings, Colin Buttimer (BBC) described the album as “ambitious, thinking music not afraid of expressing feeling. Chris Bowden is one of the UK's great altoists and composers; Slightly Askew underlines this”.
Drug and alcohol addiction led Chris to return to his home town, Birmingham, but it wasn’t until 2010 that he resigned to making his first real attempt to get clean. Following a lengthy recovery program he describes as a desperate time with an uncertain future, with the support of friends and family he got back on his feet and has been clean and sober for the last 10 years.
In this time, he has established himself as an in-demand saxophonist and educator. His Quartet play all over the UK and he appears frequently as a guest artist with a variety of groups. He has recorded two further albums, “Unlikely Being” on UK Vibe in 2018 and “The Hypnos Files”, described as “Brecker meets Beyonce”, on Rehab Records in 2022.
This special performance features Chris with a truly world class band - Louise Warren (vocals), Jim Watson (piano), Simon ‘Palmskin’ Richmond (keys), Chris Dodd (bass) and Neil Bullock (drums) - performing work from across his career.