Underwards - Delve

Trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood’s Underwards features some of Sydney’s most creative next generation artists including guitarist Hilary Geddes, bassist Nick Henderson and drummer Alex Inman-Hislop. Ten evocative and eclectic jazz-inflected originals grace their recent album, Delve, drawing inspiration from the ways in which humans experience nature, combining beauty, mystery, colour and rhythm.

Delve, the album’s title track, features a catchy and driving drum’n bass groove with unexpected rhythmic twists and sparse trumpet and guitar melodies. Guitarist Hilary Geddes and drummer Alex Inman-Hislop both play exciting solos, and the whole piece is underpinned by Nick Henderson’s energetic electric bass. The track’s title, Delve, is a nod to the name of the band, and also to Ellen Kirkwood’s artistic process of getting deep into ideas that arrive of their own accord, and patiently letting those ideas develop into fully-fledged pieces.