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Charlie Murray, Ford Sterling, Eddie Gribbon, Marie Prevost, Charlotte Mineau in His Youthful Fancy (1920)

Mack Sennett's Fun Factory by Brent E. Walker

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Performances & other incidents

Contact: douglas.benford@gmail.com

See also: http://douglasbenford.org.uk

Sound gallery: http://douglassoundgallery.tumblr.com

Bandcamp: https://dbenford.bandcamp.com/music

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2023

December

- Performance as part of a trio with Mirie Ya and Chris Hill at the Frank Chickens’ Merry Mini Ura Matsuri, St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

- Performance as part of a trio with Chris Hill and James O’Sullivan at Matt Atkins’ 50th birthday event, Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Trio performance with Iris Colomb and Tom Ward at a Lion Heart production event, The Royal Albert pub, New Cross, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Faradina Afifi, Charlotte Keeffe, Julien Woods and George Garford at Longfield Hall, Camberwell, London, UK

- The Ambrosia Rasputin radio show on Resonance FM this month had two programmes with pieces involving Douglas Benford aired. Firstly, a performance by Maggie Nicols, Isidora Edwards, Alex Paxton, Hyelim Kim and Douglas Benford, and then also a piece by Mandhira De Sara, John Edwards, Hannah Marshall and Douglas Benford from their bandcamp album, see links below.

November

- Trio performance with Verity Lane and N.O. Moore at Soundhunt (part of Cambridge Jazz Festival), Thrive cafe, Cambridge, UK

- Attended and performed at the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Eddie Prevost, Nathan Moore, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Jessica St Bruno, Chris Hill, Ed Lucas and Romuald Wadych.

- Performances as part of a quintet with Maggie Nicols, Alex Paxton, Hyelim Kim and Isidora Edwards at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Faradina Afifi (with poetry by Bettina Schroeder & Roger Huddle), Sue Lynch, Jonny Martin and Benjy Sandler at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

- Duo performance with Dee Byrne at a Lion Heart production event, The Royal Albert pub, New Cross, London, UK

October

- Attended and performed at the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Eddie Prevost, Nathan Moore, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, John Eyles, Gina Fergione, Jessica St Bruno, Ian Wadley, and Mirei Ya

- Performances as part of a quartet with Emily Shapiro, Sofia Vaisman-Maturana, Abe Mamet, Maya Leigh-Rosenwasser at The Intimate Space, St Mary’s Tower, Hornsey Village, London, UK

- The Ambrosia Rasputin radio show on Resonance FM airs an excerpt of ‘Cascade Study Team’ from the Bandcamp album by Douglas Benford, Emily Shapiro, N.O. Moore and Clive Bell - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-ambrosia-rasputin-show-15-oct-2023/

- Performances as part of a quartet with Sue Lynch, Dave Fowler and Noah Berrie at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as part of a trio with Verity Lane and Eddie Prevost at Ad Lib, Open Ealing, Ealing, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Chris Killick, Olga Ksendzovska, Aurelie Freoua and Martin Hackett at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

September

- Performances as part of a trio with Lucy Strauss and Alan Wilkinson at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Attended and performed three times this month at the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Eddie Prevost, Nathan Moore, Tilly Coulton, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, John Eyles, Tony Hardy-Bick, Tansy Spinks, Chris Hill, Verity Lane, Noah Berrie, Soeine, Samuele Albani, Alan Newcombe, James O’Sullivan, Ed Shipsey, Ross Lambert, Keisuke Matsui, Ian Wadley, Benjy Sandler, Andrea Bolzoni and Mirie Ya

- Performances as part of quartet with Ariséma Tekle, Robert Finegan & James O’Sullivan at Finch Cafe, London Fields, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Charlotte Keeffe, Olga Ksendzovska, Dee Byrne, Gustavia Clayton Marucci and Phil Minton at St Mary’s New Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

August

- Attended and performed twice this month at the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Eddie Prevost, Nathan Moore, Noah Berrie, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Tony Hardy-Bick, Ian Wadley, Chris Hill, Tansy Spinks, Alan Newcombe, Keisuke Matsui, Will Clark, Mirie Ya and Ross Lambert

- Duo performance with Pascal Marzan at a private party celebrating Sylvia Hallet’s birthday

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra, with conductions by Steve Beresford, Charlotte Keefe, Noel Taylor, Julian Woods, Ashley Wales, Maggie Nicols, Faradina Afifi, Aurelie Freoua, Rowland Sutherland, Orphy Robinson at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK

July

- Performances as a part of a quartet with Caroline Kraabel, Julia Doyle and Tom Ward at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Keyboard contribution to Jackson Burton & Ash Reid’s performance at an Associates pop group dedication event, Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK

- Trio performance with Charlotte Keeffe and Tom Jackson at a Lion Heart production event, The Royal Albert pub, New Cross, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi, Olga Ksendzovska, Martin Hackett and Dave Tucker at St Mary’s New Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

June

- A trailer for a documentary film on artist Calum Storrie, to be released later in 2023, is released, featuring co-compositions and performances by Douglas Benford - https://youtu.be/wRHhQ6ojaT4

- Performances as a part of a quartet with Jamie Coleman, Florence Uniacke and Daniel Thompson at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as part of Confront Recordings’ The Seen twentieth anniversary alongside Regan Bowering, Phil Durrant, Graham MacKeachan, Paul Khimasia Morgan, Cath Roberts, Matt Atkins, Bill Thompson, David Toop and Mark Wastell at Hundred Years gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Attended and performed at the London Improvisation Workshop three times this month at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Keisuke Matsui, Noah Berrie, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Paul Margree, Tony Hardy-Bick, Chris Hill, Alan Newcombe, Tansy Spinks, Ian Wadley and Tom Mills.

- The Ambrosia Rasputin radio show on Resonance FM airs the piece ‘Smashed Dimensions’ by Douglas Benford, Otto Willberg and Phil Durrant (from the bandcamp ‘Stolen Embers’) - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-ambrosia-rasputin-show-11-june-2023/

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Steve Beresford/Faradena Afifi, Adrian Northover, Ashley Wales w. Iris Colomb, Dee Byrne and Julian Woods w. George Garford at St Mary’s New Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

- Performance as a member of Multiple Melodicas alongside Steve Beresford, David Grundy and Georgina Brett at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK

May

- Performances at a celebration of Emily Shapiro's birthday with Emily Suzanne Shapiro, Devon Osamu Tipp, Jo De Hulsters, Sofia Vaisman Maturana and Laura Beardsmore at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances with Marks Sanders and Verity Lane as part of ‘Drawn Into Sound’, with graphic scores by Calum Storrie and Livia Garcia at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK

- Performances as a part of a quartet with Sylvia Hallett, Ecka Mordecai and Roland Ramanan at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Attended and performed this month with the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Eddie Prevost, Tony Hardy-Bick, Lucy Strauss, Chris Hill, Ross Lambert, Verity Lane, Regan Bowering, James O’Sullivan, Mirie Ya, Andrew Ciccone, Noah Berrie and N. O. Moore

- Recording session at the Hundred Years gallery, Hoxton, London, UK with Graham MacKeacham, Keisuke Matsui and Regan Bowering

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi, Adrian Northover, Ashley Wales, Olga Ksendzovska, Philip Wachsmann and Aurelie Freoua at St Mary’s New Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

- Performance with Chris Hill, Iris Colomb, Crystal Ma and others at Babble & Squeak, Hundred Years gallery, Hoxton, UK

April

- Performances of Phil Morton’s 50:50 timer project alongside Phil Morton & the Oxford Improvisers (inc Mark Browne, Martin Hackett and others), and London-based improvisers Chris Hill, John Eyles, Iris Colomb, Pat Moochy, Lucky Liguori, Alan Newcombe and others at South Oxford Community Centre, Oxford, UK

- Attended and performed on two occasions this month with the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Eddie Prevost, David Grundy, John Eyles, Oscar Leyens, Tony Hardy-Bick, Tom Mills, Jordan Muscatello, Lucy Strauss, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Armin Sturm, Chris Hill, Ross Lambert, Ed Shipsey, Alex Dalchecco, Tansy Spinks, Angus Paget, Faidon Pap, Helen Dimos, Sacha Kahirand and N. O. Moore

- Performances of Phil Morton’s 50:50 timer project alongside Phil Morton, Chris Hill, John Eyles, Ed Shipsey, Iris Colomb, Kostas Chondros, Pat Moochy, Martin Hackett, Lucky Liguori, Theo Finkel, James O’Sullivan, Hywel Jones and Matt Atkins at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a part of a quartet with David Toop, Regan Bowering and Andrea Bolzoni at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performance as a member of Multiple Melodicas alongside Steve Beresford, Martin Hackett, David Grundy and Georgina Brett at Water Into Beer, Brockley, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Steve Beresford, Olga Ksendzovska, Faradena Afifi, Ashley Wales, Martin Hackett and Aurelie Freoua at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

March

- Attended and performed with the London Improvisation Workshop three times this month at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Alan Newcombe, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, David Grundy, Chris Hill, Regan Bowering, Jamie Coleman, Ed Shipsey, Lydia Swift, Mirie Ya, Theo Wigens, Helen Dimos, Florence Uniacke, John Eyles, Andrew Ciccone, Noah Berrie, Pat Moonchy, Ian Wradley, Lucky Liguori, Ross Lambert, Tony Hardie-Bick, Oscar Leyens, Jordan Muscatello, Jack Dove, Tansy Spinks, Crystal Ma and Keisuke Matsui

- Performances as a trio with Marjolaine Charbin & Dominic Lash at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- The Ambrosia Rasputin radio show airs the Hundred Years gallery event celebrating Maggie Nicols 75th Birthday including a group piece with Douglas Benford - [see the link above for the complete progamme]

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Steve Beresford (w. text by Brian Eley), Faradena Afifi, Dee Byrne, Ashley Wales, Loz Speyer and Aurelie Freoua at St Mary’s New Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

- Lengthy review of three releases (‘Plays LemonMelons’, ‘Taking A Quiet Road’ and a Lonely Impulse Collective piece) by Douglas Benford in the March 2023 issue of the Wire magazine, print edition, by Brian Morton. “Benford quite deliberately goes anywhere…quietly rapt….comfortably absorbed and absorbing”

- Duo performance with Benedict Taylor and group performance with Adrian Northover, Sue Lynch, Adam Bohman, Benedict Taylor, Georgina Brett, Daniel Thompson and Vid Drasler at a Lion Heart production event, The Royal Albert pub, New Cross, London, UK

February

- Performances as a quartet with Steve Noble, Adam Bohman & Dee Byrne at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performance at Maggie Nichols’ 75th Birthday event and gallery fundraiser with Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Nicky Heinen, Caroline Kraabel, Mark Wastell and Phil Durrant at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK (see YouTube clip above)

- Performances of Phil Morton’s 50:50 timer project alongside Phil Morton, Chris Hill, John Eyles, Regan Bowering, David Grundy, Ed Shipsey, Tom Mills, Kostas Chondros, Pat Moochy, James Malone, Alan Newcombe and others at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- The Ambrosia Rasputin radio show airs the piece ‘Ramparts’ by Douglas Benford, Isadora Edwards and Adrian Northover (from the bandcamp album by them) - [link above for whole radio show]

- Duo performance with Cath Roberts at Boat-Ting, Embankment/Temple, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by David Leahy, Adrian Northover, Dee Byrne, Ashley Wales and Martin Hackett at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

January

- Attended and performed with the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Eddie Prevost, James O’Sullivan, Tom Mills, Nathan Moore, Ross Lambert, Chris Hill, Alan Newcombe, Emmanuelle Waeckerle and Kostas Chondros

- Performance as a trio with Isidora Edwards and Adrian Northover at the Horse Impro Club, The Glitch, Waterloo, London, UK

- The Ambrosia Rasputin radio show had two different programmes featuring firstly most of the Mopomoso Xmas event included the duo by Andrea Bolzoni and Douglas Benford - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-ambrosia-rasputin-show-15-jan-2023/ - and secondly most of the Hundred Years gallery winter solstice event including the duo of Verity Lane and Douglas Benford - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-ambrosia-rasputin-show-22-jan-2023/

- Performances as a quartet with Emily Shapiro, N. O. Moore & Clive Bell at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Recording session at the Hundred Years gallery, Hoxton, London, UK with Graham MacKeacham and Regan Bowering

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ANLA COURTIS ft. VOMIR + LENA CIRCUS & HIROKO KOMIYA + AUDREY CARMES & LEANDRO BARZABAL + PRZEMYSŁAW SANECKI

DIMANCHE LE 25.02

ANLA COURTIS ar feat. VOMIR fr LENA CIRCUS & HIROKO KOMIYA fr / jp AUDREY CARMES  & LEANDRO BARZABAL ar / fr PRZEMYSŁAW SANECKI pl

à Les Nautes

1 Quai des Célestins

75004 M° Sully-Morland

P.A.F. 6€

20:00 portes

20:42 action!!

ANLA COURTIS ar feat. VOMIR fr Un LP documentant une collaboration inédite et à distance entre les deux Messieurs est paru sur le label parisien L'Eau des Fleurs en juin dernier. Ils vont essayer de ne pas re-jouer tous les morceaux à la note près.

Si je comprends bien :  Alan / Anla commencera tout seul - pour être par la suite rejoint à un moment donné par Roro Perrot ( aka VOMIR ou l'inverse ). Mais peut-être ai-je mal compris - - - - ?

https://eaudesfleurs.bandcamp.com/album/sin-comentarios

La musique d'Alan ( aka Anla ) Courtis oscille toujours entre art sonore, musique électroacoustique, drone, noise, entre improvisation et composition. Avec souvent un petit quelque chose de pataphysique dans ses manipulations de bandes, ou d'enregistrements numériques, son approche d'instruments, ou d'outils informatiques... etc. La liste de ses collaborations ressemble à un Who's Who des musiques ( et des non-musiques ) expérimentales des trente dernières années : Pauline Oliveros, Phil Niblock, Lee Ranaldo, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Eddie Prevost, Jim O'Rourke, Mats Gustafsson, KK Null, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Andy Bolus, Sir Rick Bishop ,Yoshimi P-Wee, Masonna, Günter Müller, Jason Kahn, Toshimaru Nakamura , Solid Eye, Daniel Menche,Thomas Dimuzio, Rudolf Eb.Er, Kouhei Matsunaga, MSBR, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lasse Marhaug, Aaron Moore, Damo Suzuki, Makoto Kawabata, Ashray Navigations, Michael Snow, Birchville Cat Motel, The New Blockaders, Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät, Merzbow, Keiji Haino, David Grubbs, L’Autopsie A Révélé Que La Mort Était Due à L’Autopsie, etc, etc, etc… Depuis de nombreuses années, fort de son expérience au sein des Reynols ( dont le percussionniste Miguel était atteint du syndrome de Down ), il a aussi développé un travail d'éducateur / animateur dans des ateliers des pratiques brutes de la musique avec des personnes atteintes d'un handicap mental.

Romain Perrot est un (non)musicien touche-à-tout performeur bruitiste autodidacte, improvisateur sans frontière, fondateur - en tant que VOMIR - de la pratique et philosophie connue sous le nom de Harsh Noise Wall, concepteur et exécutant de la ShitFolk, papa de Broken Impro series, déployant en parallèle une activité plastique sous le nom d'ABSURDUM, membre de JOAN JETT FANCLUB, M_D_R, Falot, Rompral Eltron, Descendeur ( entre autres ) ... .. 

LENA CIRCUS +HIROKO KOMIYA fr / jp Intimisme psychédélique ? Nous sommes ravis de recevoir pour la troisième fois cette collaboration récurrente entre le trio parisien et la performeuse japonaise ( évoluant la plupart du temps dans l'univers butô ) oùune synergie et une entente exceptionnelles se mettent en œuvre pour aboutir à faire naître un univers sonore d'une grande densité, toujours surprenant, avec un sens du détail et une cohérence organique.Formé en 1999 par Antoine Letellier (guitares, instruments à vent) & Nicolas Moulin (guitare, électroniques), LENA CIRCUS est d'abord un duo (avec à son actif neuf EPs publiés à un rythme mensuel, sur divers labels indépendants), avant d'être rejoint en 2003 par Guillaume Arbonville (percussions). Suscitant des comparaisons avec les expérimentations de Sun Ra, Don Cherry ou TajMahal Travellers, leur univers, fruit d'une communication quasi-télépathique entre les musiciens, fait preuve d'une alchimie sonore singulière, toute en finesse et en tension permanente.

Hiroko Komiya recours aux sons tirés de la nature à l'aide d'une collection d'objets au son magique, comprenant des coquillages, des cloches, des heurtoirs, des hochets, des récipients en étain et des instruments traditionnels spécialement sélectionnés. Elle utilise également sa propre voix, créant ainsi des improvisations musicales non harmoniques, remontant aux archétypes de la culture orientale.

"Jouée par une formation free-jazz au demeurant non violente, cette musique est hypnotique, forçant l'attention vers une jubilatoire tension de l'écoute, où les objets sonores pétillent, irradient.Hiroko Komiya, qui double les sons d'un geste, est une partenaire parfaite : elle malaxe et fait crisser des coquillages dans une main, tapote des tringles, froisse des fibres, jouant de l'instrument et du son comme le chat avec un caillou, une souris ou une pelote de laine. La matière sonore extrêmement dense est toujours sensuelle, ce qui rend très amicale une trame pourtant complexe." (Marteen B., Mille Feuille) " 

AUDREY CARMES & LEANDRO BARZABAL ar / fr Basse double.

Surprise du chef. Commande very spéciale du Non_Jazz - en étroite collaboration avec le GRM ( Parallèle ) . Première mondiale.

Entre new new age, ambient, krautrock ouateux, spoken word susurré et electronica, inclassable,  Audrey dispense des so(i)ns atmosphériques - comme une invitation à l'introspection et à la ( douce ) rêverie à base de nappes synthétiques, guitare, basse, flûte, vibraphone... Son premier album "Quelque chose s'est dissipé" est sorti en juillet dernier chez Métron Records.

Entre larmes de cire et moulages de béton, Leandro fait gentiment suer sa Fender Jaguar ( et ses amplis ) à moins qu'il ne s'en prenne à son synthé fait maison avec plein de boutons et plein de bougies plantées là où ça fait du pas bien. Performeur bien performant, il a bien plus de tours dans son sac encore mais on ne va pas en faire un inventaire exhaustif non plus hein.

Il s'agit d'une association inédite - pas de lien disponible à ce jour ( donc ). À découvrir sur place.

https://mmli.bandcamp.com/album/terrorgammons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0tbE9Xc_8

https://www.15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-audrey-carmes/page-1/ PRZEMYSŁAW SANECKI pl a débuté sa carrière en tant qu'artiste de performance au début des années 2000. Au fil des années, son travail a connu de nombreux changements et, depuis 2014, il réalise des œuvres exclusivement avec des méthodes « computationnelles ». Ces dernières années, il s'est concentré sur la réalisation d'œuvres vidéo dans l'esprit du cinéma structurel et matérialiste en utilisant des méthodes programmatiques. Son travail sur le son a toujours occupé une place importante et, en plus d'être membre du groupe de rap d'avant-garde KOT, il a été très actif sur la scène noise en Pologne. Il sort actuellement sous le nom de THSHLT, principalement sur son propre label PEIG (en collaboration avec Emilia Wysocka) et prépare ses débuts sous le nom de CZANEL. Il utilise le Pd patches comme instrument principal ainsi que des synthétiseurs analogiques modulaires et semi-modulaires.

NB / #envoiedubois

Fly Jo L'Indien

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Eddie Prevost, Verity Lane and Douglas Benford in a trio playing Ad Lib, Open Ealing, London, UK

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1966 and All That: AMM and The Four Tops Part One

I haven't been doing much else in the writing department than trying to finish the first draft of my psychogeography-informed (says he) book about Crouch End ('niche' topics being definitely my thing). But reading the great Richard Williams' blog ("The last of AMM") about the final gig of the equally great AMM (30th. July) got me thinking about the improvising ensemble's very first album, AMMusic1966, a year that also arguably marked the apogee of the career of a group that I have been listening a lot to recently, Tamla Motown's The Four Tops. I realise that this is something of a "commodius vicus of recirculation", as Joyce puts it in the opening of Finnegans Wake, but there you go, it was a famous year for many different forms of music.

At Saturday 30th. July (coincidently the 56th, anniversary of England winning the Jules Rimet trophy) at Cafe Oto, a duo of Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe played what was purportedly their last ever gig as AMM. In the same July as the World Cup triumph (not repeated in any way until the Lionesses triumph just a week ago, also in the seventh month), a five member AMM recorded their first vinyl outing, on the 8th. and the 27th. I've talked a lot about AMM in my books, so don't intend to dwell on them here, except to acknowledge the importance of this final performance, as the group was the last one standing, after 57 years, of the first generation of free improvisers, with AMMusic1966 being the first recorded release of genuine free improv in Britain. The group's retirement thus represents a definite fin de siecle moment for this 'movement'.

At another remove, 1966 was a defining year for The Four Tops' unique take on pop psychodrama. I became eleven years of age in July (a theme seems to be developing here?) 1966, and I clearly remember 'Reach Out, I'll Be There' There' being number 1 in that summer, along with so many immortal pop songs, but I was too callow to appreciate both the emotional intensity of Levi Stubbs' lead vocals or the sheer power they lent to the frequently rather subtly dark lyrics of Eddie and Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier.

To be continued.

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AMM III [Keith ROWE & Eddie PREVOST]

"It had been an ordinary Day in Pueblo, Colorado"

(LP. Japo rcds. 1980 / rec. 1979) [GB]

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Jennifer Allum / John Butcher / Ute Kanngiesser / Eddie Prévost — Sounds of Assembly (Meenna)

Photo by Stewart Morgan  

Sounds of Assembly by Jennifer Allum / John Butcher / Ute Kanngiesser / Eddie Prevost

When music is improvised, philosophy matters. While contrasting conceptions can lead to some intriguing contests of sound and will, it can also lead to dialogues of the deaf. And while complete agreement can lead to music short on spark, a consensus about what’s important can ensure that the music makes some sort of sense. The quartet that made Sounds of Assembly works in the area of philosophical commonality, and makes from it a sound world well worth settling into.

Violinist Jennifer Allum and cellist Ute Kanngiesser first made each other’s acquaintance when they both were members of percussionist Eddie Prévost’s weekly improvisation workshop; each has recorded with him, and they also have made a duo album for his Matchless imprint. Prévost has written at length about the ethics, aesthetics and practice of improvised music, and it is fair to say that the two string players share with him a readiness to engage with what others play. Tenor and soprano saxophonist John Butcher brings an instantly recognizable instrumental voice, but also a commitment to apply that personal vocabulary in ways that keep the music developing. Butcher has played with Prévost both in and outside of AMM, which has been dealing with such concerns since the mid-1960s; they are partners in the search to find new things to do with what you know. 

This session was originally recorded in 2013 in order to provide material for Stewart Morgan’s portrait, Eddie Prévost’s Blood, but you’ll hear a lot more material on this CD than made it into the film. The music expresses at length what Prévost says in the film’s first minutes. The musicians come together with a shared intention that creates a ritualistic atmosphere, one in which collective intention and focused attention conspire to invest each sound, however brief or quiet, with a sense of significance. Prévost teaches his workshop participants to work, not from a received vocabulary of training or instrumental history, but from a readiness to find something new, and a further willingness to share that with whoever is listening. Of course, it’s pretty much impossible for people who have decades of experience to forget everything they know, but they can seek to prioritize the collective creation over displays of personal accomplishment. In this setting, Prévost and Butcher could easily dominate by dint of volume, and there are moments where their textured, elongated tones are much louder that the unamplified, acoustic strings. But even in those moments, the pluck of string and the knock of wood invests the music with a charge of significance-investing energy. Whether they combine like layers of fabric or flint and steel, each player influences the music’s essence; to enter into such action, either as a player, an audience member, or a person spending time with the recording, is to become part of the shared listening experience. 

Bill Meyer

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Listen/purchase: Plumes of Ash in Moonlight by Brice-Bick-Moore-Pettersen-Prevost-Solberg

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JOHN TILBURY & EDDIE PREVOST. Eddie Prevost. Festival CRAK. Eglise st Merry.Paris

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Golden Era Actors. Part One

·       Richard Travers

Born 15th April 1885.Hudson Bay Trading Post, Northwest Territory, Canada.Richard Travers (15 April 1885 – 20 April 1935) was a Canadian film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 143 films between 1912 and 1930.

·       Marie Prevost

Marie Prevost (November 8, 1896[1] – January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures. Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925).

·       Lottie Pickford·      

Lottie Pickford (June 9, 1893 – December 9, 1936) was a Canadian-born silent film actress and socialite. She was the sister of fellow actress Mary Pickford and actor Jack Pickford. One of her best known roles was in The Diamond from the Sky directed by William Desmond Taylor in 1915. Pickford's career is often overshadowed by that of her siblings and though she was a notable figure in the 1920s, her films and role in the Pickford acting family is now largely forgotten.

·       Vina Fay Wray.

  Vina Fay Wray,  September 15, 1907, Cardston, Alberta, Canada. August 8, 2004 (aged 96) New York City, U.S. Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian/American actress most noted for playing the female lead in the 1933 film King Kong as Ann Darrow. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained

international renown as an actress in horror movie roles. She was one of the first "scream queens".

 ·       Jack Pickford

 Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith; August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer. He was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford.

After their father deserted the family, all three Pickford children began working as child actors on the stage. Mary Pickford later became a highly popular silent film actress, producer and early Hollywood pioneer. While Jack also appeared in numerous films as the "All American boy next door" and was a fairly popular performer, his popularity never matched that of his sister's. By the late 1920s, his career had begun to decline due to his penchant for partying and frequent use of drugs and alcohol. In 1933, Pickford died in Paris of progressive multiple neuritis, aged thirty-six.

 ·       Joseph Wiseman.

Joseph Wiseman (May 15, 1918 – October 19, 2009) was a Canadian theatre and film actor, best known for starring as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, his role as Manny Weisbord on the TV series Crime Story, and his career on Broadway. He was once called "the spookiest actor in the American theatre".Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Orthodox Jewish parents, Louis and Pearl Rubin (née Ruchwarger), Wiseman grew up in New York. At age 16, he began performing in summer stock and became professional, which displeased his parents.

 ·       Marjorie Ann Guthrie.

Born Marjorie Ann Guthrie in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. she was the first-born child of a grain merchant born in Simcoe, Ontario. She entered show business at age 8 or age 10, as one of the Winnipeg Kiddies, a troupe of child performers who toured Canada and the United States. She danced and sang with the troupe until too old to continue; then at age 17, in December 1921, she went to San Francisco and joined Thelma Wolpa in amateur vaudeville comedy. Thelma White later gained immortality as the blowsy Mae in Reefer Madness. According to the New York Times (August 11, 1924), Marjorie White married Eddie Tierney on August 10, 1924 in Greenwich, Connecticut. Spouse(s)Edwin J. Tierney (1924-1935; her death)in car crash.

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AMM / An Unintended Legacy (3CD)

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Performances & other incidents

Contact: douglas.benford@gmail.com

See also: http://douglasbenford.org.uk

Sound gallery: http://douglassoundgallery.tumblr.com

Bandcamp: https://dbenford.bandcamp.com/music

Further links at bottom of page

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2024

May

- Performances as part of a quartet with Alan Newcombe, Iris Colomb & Tom Mills at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Jerry Wigens, Julia Bruessel and Pascal Marzan at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

April

- Quartet recording live session at Antenna studio, Crystal Palace, London with N. O. Moore, Tansy Spinks and Clive Bell

- Duo performance with Iris Colomb & Tom Ward at BRAK, Water Into Beer, Brockley, London, UK

- Attended and performed at the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Paul Margree, Chris Hill, Keisuke Matsui, Ross Lambert, Helena Paul, Kostas Chondros and Regan Bowering.

- Performances as part of a trio with Benjy Sandler & Julian Woods at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances and conduction as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi, Gina Fergione, Olga Ksendzovska and a joint one by Douglas Benford & Aurelie Freoua at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

- Trio performance with Nat Catchpole & Dominic Lash at Ad Lib, Open Ealing, Ealing, London, UK

- Duo performance with Sue Lynch at a Lion Heart production event, The Royal Albert pub, New Cross, London, UK

March

- Performances as part of a quartet with Tilly Coulton, Caius Williams & Jamie Coleman at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- The BBC Radio 3 Freeness radio show airs an excerpt of ‘Glancing Blows’ from the Bandcamp album by Douglas Benford, Cath Roberts, Sylvia Hallett and Dominic Lash

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi/Ivor Kallin, Theo Finkel, Oliver Jarvis and Martin Hackett at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

February

- Attended and performed at the London Improvisation Workshop at the Welsh Chapel, Borough, London, UK. Other performers: Eddie Prevost, Nathan Moore, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Jessica St Bruno, Kostas Chondros, Ross Lambert, James O’Sullivan, Alan Newcombe, Tom Mills, Helena Paul, Chris Hill and John Bissett.

- The Ambrosia Rasputin radio show on Resonance FM airs an excerpt of ‘Glancing Blows’ from the Bandcamp album by Douglas Benford, Cath Roberts, Sylvia Hallett and Dominic Lash, listen here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-ambrosia-rasputin-show-11-feb-2024/

- Performances as part of a duo with Mirie Ya and Multiple Melodicas (w. Steve Beresford, Georgina Brett, Martin Hackett & David Grundy) at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Loz Speyer, George Garford, Jonny Martin and Martin Hackett at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

- Performances as part of a trio with Angharad Davies and Sofia Vaisman-Maturana at Ad Lib, Open Ealing, Ealing, London, UK

January

- Performances as a member of London Improvisers Orchestra with conductions by Ashley Wales, Maggie Nicols, Philipp Wachsmann and Terry Day as part of the tribute to Martin Davidson event at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK

- Public screening of documentary on artist Calum Storrie - ‘Drawing, etc’ - with music by Douglas Benford on the soundtrack, at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK. This documentary is also available for streaming / rental here. This film has also been screened at Tokyo International short festival 2024.

- Performance as part of a quartet with Ecka Mordecai, Sylvia Hallett & Roland Ramanam at Mopomoso, the Vortex, London, UK

- Performed on 3 pieces with the Charlotte Keeffe Quartet Right Here Right Now at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK

- Performances as part of a quartet with Emily Shapiro, N. O. Moore & Clive Bell at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performance with Clive Bell at the Horse Improvisation Club & Shrike Records takeover event at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

Continued below…

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DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE & ANLA COURTIS / RICARDO DIAS GOMES & LOÏC PONCEAU / SEIJIRO MURAYAMA & FLORIAN TOSITTI / PHANES

DIMANCHE 15 MARS  

NB / à noter que le concert commencera tôt : 19h ! puisque nous sommes tenus de respecter un couvre-feu pour le son : la fin des concerts aux alentours de 22:30 au plus tard ! 

Le Non_Jazz s'associe avec l'éminent label SDZ Records - qui en 2020 fête son VINGTIÈME anniversaire : champagne ! pour une programmation " SPÉCIAL DOUBLE MESSIEURS "  avec QUATRE duos non-mixtes néanmoins internationaux    DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE & ANLA COURTIS / de/arg RICARDO DIAS GOMES & LOÏC PONCEAU br/fr SEIJIRO MURAYAMA & FLORIAN TOSITTI jp/fr PHANES it/fr  

[ ( NB /   à noter aussi qu'il y aura comme un " prélude " à cette soirée au même endroit : pour la sortie du livre " Disorder - Histoire Sociale des mouvements punk et post-punk" (ouvrage collectif) : un événement feat. une performance par Jacques Pochat, Romaric Sobac et Richard Comte y aura lieu à 17h...  ) ]

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DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE & ANLA COURTIS / de/arg Un album vient de voir le jour sur le label Fern Recordings et ce concert devrait servir à " marquer le coup " ! DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE projet de musique concrète / électroacoustique de Guido Huebner, plasticien et compositeur autodidacte (depuis 1983), considéré comme le chainon manquant entre MERZBOW et Pierre HENRY.... Sa musique bruitiste et minimale laisse beaucoup de place au silence, à la rupture et à la respiration. Il intervient autant lors de concert-performances qu’avec des installations multimédia, de la poésie expérimentale, des livres, des essais, ou des sites internets. Ses nombreux travaux ont été publiés sous forme de K7, vynils, cd sur des labels en Europe, au Japon et aux États-Unis. Il a composé des pièces pour l’ensemble ZEITKRATZER (ou Ulrich KRIEGER) et a collaboré avec des musiciens comme Frans de Waard, Ralf Wehosky, The Newblockaders, Radu Malfatti, Thierry Madiot, Claus van Bebber ou Roel Melkoop..... Après Berlin, Barcelone, Bordeaux, et Nice le musicien allemand baroudeur réside actuellement à Caen en Basse Normandie. (Sonic Protest 2011)

ALAN COURTIS / arg Membre fondateur des Reynols, groupe de folie surréaliste “culte” avec plus de 100 enregistrements au compteur, il a tourné intensément tout autour du globe (Japon, Europe, Usa, Amérique Latine) et ses  collaborations tous azimuts avec la crème de la scène expérimentale internationale constituent un impressionnant “tableau de chasse” ressemblant à un véritable “Who is Who” de celle-ci :: Pauline Oliveros, Lee Ranaldo, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Damo Suzuki, Makoto Kawabata, Eddie Prevost, Mats Gustafsson, KK Null, Sir Rick Bishop, Yoshimi P-Wee,Masonna, Günter Müller, Jason Kahn, Toshimaru Nakamura , Solid Eye, Thomas Dimuzio, Rudolf Eb.Er, Kouhei Matsunaga, MSBR, Yoshida Tatsuya, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lasse Marhaug, Ashtray Navigations, Michael Snow, Uton, Birchville Cat Motel, Culver, Dan Warburton, Andrey Kiritchenko, Stilluppsteypa, The New Blockaders, Avarus, Kemialliset Ystävät, etc, etc, etc (etc).

La musique de Courtis se compose des manipulations spontanées de sons préparés, d’interventions sur cassettes/bandes, de traitements d’enregistrements environnementaux, de soli de guitare (ou autre instrument à cordes) non-préparée, jeux de détournements d’objets divers, cymbales, synthétiseurs ou outils informatiques, mélangeant l'acoustique à l'électronique, et le pataphysique au ban©al.

https://fernsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/squenun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6r75JAJog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieEXN526Pfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgBS6BtlUeo

RICARDO DIAS GOMES & LOÏC PONCEAU br/fr Il s'agira d'une collaboration inédite à l'issue d'une résidence par ces deux artistes aux Instants Chavirés.

" Peut-être du chant non amplifié et peut être de la danse ; de la basse et du lecteur à bande Nagra E, assurément des plaques de verre, de la porcelaine, des boîtes à hachi-harsh (avec des IN et des OUT) : oui ! Des microphones en cascade (modérée) et deux pierres semi-précieuses un sub, on espère des structures longues et des structures courtes ; des systèmes et circuits à niveaux multiples une boite de cigarillos vide un Ricardo Dias Gomes et un Loïc Ponceau sortant de résidence aux Instants Chavirés un AMAS CONSIDÉRABLE d'incertitude excitée "

RICARDO DIAS GOMES

« Between the snake’s belly and the ground, between the closing door and the fleeing finger, between the end of the day and the fall of the night: there is the music of Ricardo Dias Gomes » – Arto Lindsay

Expérimentateur respecté de la scène musicale de Rio de Janeiro depuis le milieu des années 90, Ricardo Dias Gomes est principalement connu pour son travail sur trois albums de Caetano Veloso acclamés par la critique à la fin des années 2000: Cê (2006), Zii and Zie (2009) et Abraçaço (2012).Bassiste sur ces trois étonnants opus post-Tropicalia et sur les tournées mondiales qui les accompagnèrent, Gomes s’en est inspiré pour se lancer dans l’enregistrement d’un premier album solo, -11, sorti en 2015. Sur -11 Gomes a joué tous les instruments et s’est appuyé uniquement sur son instinct pour trouver une direction musicale : le magazine anglais The Wire souligna la qualité de l’album qui « n’est pas s’en rappeler d’autres débuts solo rugueux et personnels comme ceux de Laetitia Sadier ou Money Mark » et le Chicago Reader succomba à l’étrangeté du disque qui « alterne entre de tendres ballades introspectives, d’abrupte grooves électroniques et une ambiance dissonante ». Gomes vit désormais à Lisbonne a sorti en 2018 un deuxième album – comprenant notamment une participation d’Arto Lindsay – sur les labels SDZ Records et Kill Shaman.

https://ricardodiasgomes.bandcamp.com/

LOÏC PONCEAU Ethnomusicologue, membre de l’Unité de Recherche Spatio-Sonore de Californie Française et musicien (Détresse Collée, Dragon du Poitou, Lès Modernos, L.T. Létext), Loïc Ponceau bricole. Le choix de ce terme ne doit rien au hasard : il cerne en effet assez précisément une manière de faire se chevaucher des objets hétéroclites, par essence et provenance. Des éléments considérés comme des corps instrumentaux rudimentaires que l’on assemble, détourne et s’approprie, dans un à-côté technique où le jeu, l’exploration et le risque sont primordiaux. Microphone, plaque de verre et pierres se chevauchent ; maracas, bande magnétique et os à moelle rencontrent une voix nue.

En plus de la musique de ses multiples projets, Loïc édite avec l’URSS,CF différents types d’objets (cassette, vinyle, affiche et même un livre à venir) pour différents artistes (City Dragon, Ys, Yann Gourdon, Dragon du Poitou, Stephen O’Malley, Ratcharmer, Jean-Marc Toulassi …), en privilégiant l’optique phénoménologique (saisir « la situation en train de ce se faire »).

https://ursscf.bandcamp.com/ https://lesmodernos.bandcamp.com/album/la-croute https://editions-gravats.bandcamp.com/album/l-s-modernos

SEIJIRO MURAYAMA & FLORIAN TOSITTI jp/fr  

Duo de caisses claires.

Percussionniste, Seijiro Murayama travaille en France depuis 1999, après presque 20 ans de parcours musicaux dans le domaine de la musique improvisée. Pour lui, l’improvisation est un souci artistique majeur même si, en public, il n’exerce pas toujours cette pratique. Son approche est basée sur l’attention à l’espace et au lieu, à l’énergie du public et notamment à la qualité du silence à des niveaux différents (physique, social, ontologique).

Percussionniste, musicien autodidacte, Florian Tositti s’intéresse aux phénomènes audibles dans un travail articulant le son à l’architecture et à l’espace social. Il cherche à construire des performances en fonction des sites, mettant en oeuvre une démarche à la fois conceptuelle et improvisée se rapportant à l’art sonore et aux poétiques de l’expérience, tendance reflétant une volonté de découvrir plutôt que d’inventer.  

https://contrepoint.bandcamp.com/album/no-title-untitled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnNDJ5bAKVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS5h0QDsoA8

https://soundcloud.com/tositti

PHANES it/fr  sont / est  Augustin Bette ( batterie, pédales ) et Luca Ventimiglia (electronics), tous les deux très actifs dans environ 362 projets émanant du très prolifique collectif 2035. "Jouer comme si l’on dessinait une forme géométrique où l’accumulation de lignes tracées à des vitesses différentes donneraient, à force, un polyèdre incertain, troué. L’électronique est obéissante, les autres instruments moins, improviser avec cette tension. " On verra ça !  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORDtgOkIPVw 

Fly - Jo L’Indien

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... did cornelia go to this eddie prevost show actually during martyn’s set? maybe it’s the kind of club that starts really late? or maybe she’s seen enough of his sets that that’s not weird i guess? (maybe really what’s weird is for her to be promoing it when he isn’t and also she maybe didn’t go?)

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Tyshawn Sorey: A 'Choice' Drummer

How often does one choose to order an jazz or rock album (on Amazon, what's more, mea culpa) specifically because of who is sitting on the drum stool? I can barely record such an occasion, although obviously who the drummer is can often contribute to a decision to purchase. (Anything with, for example, Eddie Prevost or Paul Lytton, will pique my interest.) I think that I bought a Decoding Society LP on hearing Ronald Shannon Jackson's work on James Blood Ulmer's Are You Glad To Be in America? way back in late 1980. Jackson sounded like something out of a experimental New Orleans marching band, or, at the very least, a military band on acid. But, drummers, in rock music at least, have often been figures of fun: thank Spinal Tap in part for that, perhaps. (The film certainly reinforced jokes like: "define a quintet - four musicians and a drummer".)

I bought Vijay Iver's recent trio release on ECM Records, Unease, as a toe-in-the-water tryout (having being unfamiliar with the pianist previously). I immediately fell in love with it, one of the reasons being the incredible drumming of Tyshawn Sorey, whose yin and yang playing covers everything from muscular belligerence to gentle brushwork and shimmering cymbals. His rimshots are worthy of Art Blakey, his pulse-drive of Sonny Murray, and his clattering timbre of Tony Oxley. But he is his own man, and his sound is entirely his, whatever influences he conjures up. He is one of the few percussionists whose 'line' I follow as closely as the supposedly more 'frontline' instruments, something that writers such as Richard Williams have commented on with regards to Unease, a factor which is ultimately the legacy, of course, of the immortal 1959-61 'three-in-one' Bill Evans Trio and the various Paul Bley groups of the 60s (especially his trio with Paul Motion and Gary Peacock).

So, I have ordered Iver's album with Sorey, Rudresh Makathappa (alto sax) and Steve Crump (bass), mainly because of the drummer's presence. Interestingly, the album itself, Blood Sutra, was released in 2003 on John Snyder's Artists House label, an outfit which released several important, and now hard to get, LPs in the late 70s. There were only 14 in total (1978-82), but they include Ornette's Body Meta and the very first two albums by James Blood Ulmer, the second of which is referenced above. The label was relaunched, with the compact disc and other media now in ascendance, with Blood Sutra as one of its first releases. I found this an entirely satisfactory occasion, as the few Artists House (AH) LPs that I possess are great artifacts, with the emphasis on 'arty', and the artists themselves were apparently given 'complete artistic control', to the extent of ownership of the master tapes. It thus seems entirely appropriate that Uneasy is a product of another label that values its artists, ECM Records.

Iyer (born in 1971) and Sorey (1980) are both young enough to promise us many more years of challenging material, as the shining example of Bob Dylan demonstrates, on today, the occasion of his 80th birthday. A lot to look forward to then, as we move away from 'lockdown'!