Regular musical affiliations with Misterlee (Lee Allatson vox, perc, electronics & Mick Oxtoby violin, bass guit), Bruce Coates saxes, Mark Sanders drums, Paul Dunmall saxes & pipes, Mike Hurley piano & keys, Chris Hobbs toys, perc & stuff, Trevor Lines dbl bass, and the Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra. Irregular dalliances with Tony Marsh drums, Tony Bianco drums, Paul Rutherford tbn, Aaron Moore drums & stuff, David Ryan clarinet, John Edwards bass, Paul Rogers bass, Tony Oxley drums, Simon Picard saxes, Hilary Jeffrey tbn & elec, Miles Levin drums, plus.
'Jamie's guitaring is a phenomenon to behold, an exercise in controlled passion... The contrast between power and restraint is a detail in a much bigger picture. Frequent stylistic switches sometimes read as jolting or stilted, sometimes as swerves in the enigmatic but ordered flight of the bumble bee. For all the swerves and switchbacks, the guitar breezes jazz and drips sweet blues.'
'[Jamies] guitar creates a warm southern comfort sound of picking and thrumming, and flocks of feathering that see hands moving too fast to focus on.'
'rock-quarrying crunchiness and playfully seething guitar'
from Opposition T live reviews.
'Jamie takes us further out...'
Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
Modern guitar bric-a-brac-ist and composer, often time member of slaughterhouse pops beat duo Misterlee and unwieldy/cumbersome superbrain massif The Birmingham Improvisers' Orchestra.
Spends daylight hours in brooding antediluvian Owlhouse, imagining music and attempting to overcome the paralysing introspection via composing, improvising, recording, ding-a-ling.
Mastermind behind uber-indie cottage label owlhouse recordings and co-father/curator of free-improv wonderland www.frimp.co.uk with tech-o-geek Paul Drewett.
Paul Dunmall! Yes! Improv!! Yes!!! Pipes, Owlhouses and vintage menswear!! Yes yes yes!!! You are clearly of the next stage of human evolution and I congratulate you sir. L xx
Stet Lab takes place this Tuesday, 10 February, upstairs @ The Roundy. The event will feature the awe-inspiring virtuoso saxophonist Paul Dunmall. [Details…] The Lab will also feature appearances by visiting performers, drummer Mark Sanders and guitarist Jamie Smith, and Stet Lab (ir)regulars including Andrea Bonino, Han-earl Park, Paul Dowling, Neil O’Loghlen, Owen Sutton, Veronica Tadman and Kevin Terry.
Dunmall, Park, Sanders and Smith will also be performing at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork on Wednesday, 11 February at 1:10 pm as part of the UCC Concert Series.
It's a pleasure to find you here. I hope life with Misterlee is treating you all well. Don't be a stranger. Cheers, Curtis =========== "Wirewalkers & Assassins" the new CD by Curtis Eller's American Circus Order it online here: Curtis Eller's American Circus www. curtiseller. com
