What The Press Say About David’s Music
"...genre-spanning...sophisticated and sharp...one of the best, robust listening experiences you're likely to have all year."
"...Northern Irish music legend...an underground music star...Ireland's leading jazz musician."
"...the best in jazz coming out of Ireland today."
"...a gnarly post-pop saxophone trio driven by the leader's grooves, but given Lyttle's energy and starry musical connections...you never know who might turn up.”
"...infectious...hypnotic, soulful and terrifically rhythmic. One of the most inventive Irish releases of the year."
"David Lyttle is one of the island's most forward-thinking and celebrated instrumentalists."
"...ambitious in its distillation of folk and urban, acoustic and electric, pop, jazz and rap sources...huge variety in sound and tone...Lyttle achieves musical coherence all the same...an impressive achievement..."
"New Orleans funk, uber-catchy pop and gospel-tinged soul rubbing shoulders with smouldering jazz improvisation and contemporary urban rhythms and vocals...Potentially the feel-good cross-over album of the year."
"...classy...slick...exceptional..."
"...exceptional...incredible...soulful..."
"...a veritable one-man industry...every indication of being the most curious, inventive and niche-averse artist in the country. [Interlude is] beautifully-produced...stellar. A rare sort of treat to come out of Ireland. Superb."
What The Press Say About David’s Drumming
"…one of the world’s great contemporary drummers."
"He drums with such discretion and awareness...allowing the music to breathe with a tonal sense that's as refreshing as it is creative."
"...Ireland's leading jazz musician."
"...electrifying..."
"...endlessly inventive...outstanding."
"...dazzling poly-rhythms, creative cymbal dynamics, and sensitive brushwork...he has earned his place in the jazz drums lineage established by artists like Max Roach, Elvin Jones and Art Blakey."
"...a hip new generation hard bop style grounded in the musical universe of Art Blakey, feeding the style of new masters such as Brian Blade into the mix of his own polyrhythmic sound..."
"...Ireland's top drummer...a loose-limbed leprechaun."