Dreamweavers: Woven in Time

Chris Allard

A cinematic, eclectic and mercurial guitar album, “Woven in Time” incorporates broad soundscapes, a contemporary jazz sensibility, and rock, folk, blues, latin and eastern influence. The evolving collaboration between Chris Allard and Mike Trim has resulted in a wide-ranging album at once earthy, contemplative, considered, and yet also energetic, fiery and space-age.

Dreamweavers: Woven in Time features live and organic acoustic performance, multi-layered instrumentation and high-level improvising, with creatively and delicately built sonic design utilising contemporary cutting-edge production techniques; generating a distinctive and evocative sound-world.

Woven in Time is the first release of new collaborative project Dreamweavers.
A follow-up album, with a more live-in-the-studio aesthetic, is nearly complete and planned for release late 2025.

Guitarist Chris Allard has recorded six previous original albums , garnering critical acclaim including four stars in Guitarist Magazine, Jazzwise, Jazz Journal, and BBC Music Magazine.
He has performed at major venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Pyramids and Great Sphinx in Cairo, the Barbican, Montreux Jazz Festival, Nuremberg Festival, Hackney Empire, O2 Arena London, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Beiteddine Arts Festival Lebanon, Edinburgh Festival, Duoro Jazz Festival Portugal, The Royal Festival Hall, the BBC Proms in Hyde Park.
Chris has performed/recorded with Jacqui Dankworth MBE, Charlie Wood, Dame Cleo Laine, Sir John Dankworth, Omar Kamal, the BBC Big Band, Jamie Cullum, Lea Salonga, Alison Balsom OBE, Gwilym Simcock.
He is also a Professor of Jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. 

Mike Trim has a long history in production and composing music for films, TV, theatre and many albums for artists.
Films include: Missing Link, Baby Father, Etosha, Prime Suspect 6, Game Over – Kasparov and the Machine  
Artists, musicians and collaborators include: Show of Hands, Perfect Houseplants, Matheran, June Tabor, John Renbourn, Davy Spillane, 
Tom Toomey, Mark Lockheart and John Parricelli, Jacqui Dankworth MBE and Anthony Kerr, Frank Perry, Nic France, Danny Thompson.
Mike owns and runs Gecko Studio along with his son, producer Jasper Trim.

1. 11th Planet – 5.47 – Chris Allard

2. Aziza Etude – 5.12 – Chris Allard

3. Woven in Time – 4.56 – Chris Allard

4. Driving Home – 8.20 – Chris Allard

5. Dancing in the Flame – 5.06 – Mike Trim

6. Frozen Light – 5.05 – Chris Allard

7. Migration – 3.50 – Mike Trim/Chris Allard

8. Bossa para Rosa (Bossa for Rose) – 3.43 – Chris Allard

9. De La Luz – 4.43 – Mike Trim

10. Skyline Drive – 3.27 – Chris Allard

Musicians:
Chris Allard – Guitar
Jim Watson – Piano
Dudley Phillips – Bass
Nick Smalley – Drums and percussion
Mike Trim – Acoustic guitar, Mando Cello – tracks – 5, 7, 9. Lap Steel guitar track 4

Produced by Mike Trim
Additional production – Jasper Trim (inc Driving Home)
Recorded by Mike Trim at Gecko Studio 2023/24