jack phoenix, frogboy, rabbi burns, rana limone . . . guests: james nye, max brennan, ken campbell, paul butler, norman king, the neasden anarchist morris dancing octet, the sidney sheldon roof destruction orchestra, the late nina plashwit (marie-jo theriou), canine chorus: max, gertie, the late fred & the late mr chins campbell, some canadian wolves
Influences
off (the top of) my head, and in no particular order . . . : Erik Satie, Charles Ives, Thelonious Sphere Monk, Edgard Varese, Sun Ra, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Vic Hoyland, Olivier Messiaen, Carl Ruggles, John Cage, Charles Mingus, Roland Alphonso, Harry Partch, Gyorgy Ligeti, Colin McPhee, Miles Davis, Scott Bradley, Conlon Nancarrow, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Pierre Boulez, George Gershwin, George Harrison, Lou Harrison, Sadie Harrison, Harry Harrison, Ray Harryhausen, Harrison Birtwistle, Henry Cowell, Syd Barrett, Keith Jarrett, Arnold Schoenberg, Carl Stalling, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Eartha Kitt, Claude Debussy, Guillaume Dufay, Ivor Cutler, Lalo Schifrin, Colin Muset, Moondog, Jimi Hendrix, Saint-Saens, Thomas Tallis, John Barry, Little Barry, Barry Humphreys, Esther Lamandier, J. S. Bach, Paul Desmond, Spike Jones (and his City Slickers), Hildegaard von Bingen, Leonard Cohen (seen here at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival:)
Bernard Hermann, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Dame Edith Evans, John Taverner, John Tavener, Velvet Underground, Anton Webern, Eric Dolphy, Mark E. Smith, John Martyn, Wim Mertens, Frank Black, Bright Eyes, Blondie, Tom Waits, Bela Bartok, Captain Beefheart, Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Roland Kirk, Sainkho Namchylak, Alberto Ginastera, Abdullah Ibrahim, Arvo Part, Hari Prasad Chausaria, Terry Riley, Iannis Xenakis, Sohrab Uduman, Cinematic Orchestra, Rabi Abu-Khalil, George Mowat Brown, Leonard Rosenman, Joni Mitchell, Philip Glass, Mongo Santamaria, Michael Ny-ny-ny-ny-man, Kaikhosru Sorabji, Henry Mancini, Wolfgang Rihm, Wolfgang Press, Wolfgang Mozart, Dharambir Singh, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann, Kurt Schwitters, Nina Simone, birdsong, running water, frogs . . .
Sounds Like
bells ringing at the bottom of the ocean -
a lonely frog singing in a deciduous forest, it's winter -
a sparrow with a big hat on chirps on a twig -
"I want to live in the whole world of music!" - Henry Cowell
My name is Jack Phoenix . . . I am a musician and writer . . Under another name, and in a previous life, I made recordings as a guest artist for Holistic, DC, FatCat & We Love You, as well as for my own label Zinc Stoat . . .
Here's Obeeb, a short film by Martha Moopette. I co-wrote and performed the music with Ergo Phizmiz. The hats featured are mainly from my own collection.
Recorded highlights include: three tracks (Bula, Ear Fluff, & Sweet Cakes) with Pnu Riff for Gilles Peterson's BBC Radio 1 Worldwide Show (Holistic, 1998). I also co-wrote & performed on 4 tracks with O.H Krill on the album
The Krill Papers (DC Recordings, 2000). My album Call of the Wild (Zinc Stoat, 2000) featured Max Brennan, Ken Campbell and three of his dogs. I played soprano sax on the track Camel Spit for Stromba (FatCat, 2005) . .
I am a musician & a writer . . but I also like to make films . . & to paint pictures . . make installations . . take photographs . . . My interviews with Robert Anton Wilson, Derren Brown & Bryan Appleyard have been published in Fortean Times, a wonderful magazine devoted to strange phenomena . . I have also been published in The Wire (a memoir of my friendship with John Cage), & I used to regularly write reviews for Jazz - The Magazine . . (when it still existed) . .
My first interview - with cult comedian Ken Campbell - was published in Gneurosis . . I worked with Ken - writing music for his shows, editing and transcribing some of them for publication, & being a test audience for his jokes - for many years . .
I studied music at the University of Surrey, gaining the degree Bachelor of Music in 1987, and became a Master of Music in Analytical Musicology in 1989. I specialize in improvisation, composition and analysis, and my dissertation subjects were Thelonious Sphere Monk and Vic Hoyland. My main instruments are piano, oboe and soprano saxophone. I also studied percussion with the wonderful James Blades. As a composer I gained much from informal discussion and correspondence with John Cage, Susan Bradshaw, Ivor Cutler, and Vic Hoyland, as well as from my own analyses, performances and improvisations.
Here's Eric Dolphy's improvisation on 'God Bless the Child' - one of my favourite performances ever:
James Nye - Jackson Phoenix's Friend Space (Top 32)
As the following of "Binjoum [PRT005]" release, here's the first LP vinyl release of Proot rec. with sides different enough to expose the multiple faces of Thiaz Itch's work :
A side, new special versions of 5 tracks extracted from the sunshiny "Binjoum" LP(available on Proot records [PRT005] and Bedroom Research [BR022])
B side, a bunch of 4 tracks that could be described as the "best of" those last 5 years of Thiaz Itch : Wan Toutou Megamix (from "Monkey Movies" on Bedroom Research [BR020]) ; and Goto Castricum, Doubidou Bidou, Balls Love Call, exclusive unreleased yet tracks !!!!
Hi Jack Phoenix ... sharing our 9min. Shaman Strings “holding the breath” video. The ‘strings’ and I were live on our March 29th Concert. Beatrice added her vocals in the studio.
Keywords: Death, Breath of life treasures, mediation & letting go of distractions… Note: 2Gatewhey did share this video with a few friends. Enlighten US, Scot
Just dropped by to say hello.Hope all is well with you. Thought I'd drop by and let you know I have uploaded a new acoustic demo called Old Gang. Hope you like it. Have a great week and I'll catch up with you soon!
Hope all is well with you. Thought I'd drop by and let you know I have recently uploaded a new acoustic demo called Scream And Shout. Hope you like it. Have a listen anyway, see what you think....
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