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Colin Towns’ new six piece band released their debut album ‘Stand Well Back’ in Germany on the 13th May 2011.

Formed in 2010 with German and UK musicians, the writing/recording took two years to complete. Featuring Mark Lockheart (Polar Bear, Loose Tubes), Chris Montague (Troyka, Kit Downes), Benny Greb (Peter Wölpl, Ron Spielman), Stephan Maass (Randy Brecker, Kruder & Dorfmeister), and Edward Maclean (Peter Fox, Nils Wülker).

Blue Touch Paper has no barriers “rarely does a piece of music demolish the well known conceptions of sound and structure.”

Jazz, rock, film, classical, electronic etc - it’s all of these but none of these. Leave your expectations behind - this is not a predictable band!

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Blue Touch Paper: Drawing Breath

Read "Blue Touch Paper: Drawing Breath" reviewed by John Kelman


It's difficult enough for an artist or group to deliver their sophomore effort, but it's even more of a challenge when their debut is as strong as Blue Touch Paper's surprising Stand Well Back (Provocateur, 2011). Blue Touch Paper is the brainchild of British keyboardist/composer Colin Towns, who has already garnered plenty of acclaim for his Mask Orchestra and Quintet, as well as his series of big band looks at the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra on Meeting of the ...

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Blue Touch Paper: Stand Well Back

Read "Blue Touch Paper: Stand Well Back" reviewed by John Kelman


Blue Paper Touch Stand Well Back Provocateur Records 2011 Based on his recent work, creating impressive big band tribute projects including Visions of Miles--The Electric Period of Miles Davis (In+Out, 2009) and John Lennon--In My Own Write (Provocateur, 2011), it might be understandable to think of Colin Towns as an arranger and bandleader rather than a composer and performer. But arranging, at least the way Towns does it, is really composition; the only difference ...

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Provocateur Records
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Provocateur Records
2011

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Stand Well Back

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Stand Well Back / Spit It Out

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