OUTRI is a new solo bass endeavour by established North East session bass player, Ian ‘dodge’ Paterson.
The educator, producer and ‘musical magpie’ (NARC magazine), will be gracing a stage at the 2026 Durham Jazz Festival.
Ian has performed and recorded for the last twenty years as a side person with various North East bands and artists (including YVA / Beccy Owen / Sharks Took The Rest / Nick Pride and the Pimptones / Slowlight Quartet / HAV / The Rubber Wellies / Matt Stalker and Fables / Giles Strong Quartet) in a whole range of genres from jazz to folk to pop.
The OUTRI project is an opportunity to try and bring some of those disparate strands together.
This project takes inspiration from a love of jazz, folk, electronica, found-sound and cinematic landscapes alongside an aesthetic focus on single live recorded takes, come what may.
The music combines organic shifting loops underpinned with beautiful harmonies and glitchy
electronica. It also provides a platform for OUTRI to work with other North East based musicians on intimate ‘one-off’ collaborations (Ruth Lambert, Imogen Bose-Ward, Phil Richardson, Wolf House, Scarlet Lantern, Soul Delay) exploring the varied musical influences that make up his sound.
