Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet are myself guit, Mark Hanslip Tenor sax, Tom Mason Bass and James Maddren Drums------ Between Line tunes: J Bratoeff: Guit , Pete Wareham: Tenor sax, Tom Mason: Double bass, Seb Rochford: Drums ----- Quintet are: J Bratoeff: Guit, Ingrid Laubrock: Tenor sax, Tom Arthurs: Trump, Tom Mason: Double bass, Dave Smith: Drums ------ Points of Perception are: J Bratoeff: Guit, Pete Wareham: Saxes, Tom Arthurs: Trump, Wampa: Electro sounds and Drums, Nick Ramm: Keys, Tom Mason: Elec and Double Bass, Seb Rochford: Drums + special guest Julia Biel: Vocal Improv: Chris Vatalaro: drums, Myself : guit
Influences
On Top of my head: Miles, Coltrane, Monk, Jimmy Hendrix, Wayne Shorter, Beatles, Kneebody, Joe Henderson, Steve Coleman, John Scofield, Mark Ducret, Squarepusher, Jason Moran, Bird, Keith Jarrett, Bjork, John Mc Laughling, Peter Gabriel, Police, Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Joe Lovano, Paul Simon, Paul Motian, Herbie Hancock, J S Bach, Ravel, 80s Prince, James Brown, Sonny Rollins, Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Neil Young, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Tim Berne, Liberty Ellman, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Kenny Wheeler, Brad Meldau, Jan Garbarek, Charles Mingus, Led Zeppelin, Drew Gress, Don Byron, Lee Konitz, Ben Monder, Dave Binney, Bill Frisel, Joni Mitchell, Fela Kuti, John Zorn, Joe Zawinul, Dylan, Farafina, Debussy, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Dave Douglas, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Happy Apple, Mark Turner, Andrew Hill, Wayne Krantz, Kenny Garrett , Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Jacky Byard, Bartok, Vijay Iyer, Ralph Alessis, Meshell, Tomas Stansko, Salif Keita, Ali Farka Toure , Maladiketa, Greg Osby, F-ire and loop Collective, Bobo Stenson, all the great musicians I have the chance to play with or played with, Eric Dolphy, Ellington, Dave Holland, Stravinsky, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall , Prokofiev, Life, People, Travelling, Cultures, Stars, travelling on the underground ( to write an angry tune!!) walking in nature, love etc..
News!! New album album out 27th July, entitled Chapters it's a duo with drummer Chris Vatalaro, I 've uploaded few tracks check it out!! Album launch is on the same day at the Vortex jazz club.Hi thanks for finding myspace page, I am a guitarist and composer living in London since 1998, I have 3 albums out, Episode (2000), Between Lines (2005, F-ire label), Points of Perception (2006, F-ire) . I am a member of the award winning F-ire collective and I am curently playing with Porpoise Corpus (Peter Wittingham award winner), Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet ( Mark Hanslip,Tom mason, James Maddren) my trio featuring James Maddren and Jasper Hoiby, the F-ire large ensemble and the critically acclaimed theatre play Velvet Scratch (Edinbourgh festival, Theatro Hora Athens Greece). I have performed with Pete Wareham (Acoustic Ladyland), Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Arthurs, Seb Rochford (Polar Bear), Ben Davis (Basquia Strings), Martin Speake, Quentin Collins, Dimitris Valilakis, Fima Ephron, Shabaka Hutchings, Nick Ramm (Clown Revisited), Barak Schmool (Time Line), Julian Seigel (Partrisan), Andrea Vicari, Orphy Robinson, Soweto kinch, Brian Edwards. I d like to think of music as a healing and positive force and I am always looking to push boundaries. That is a brief description of who I am ( as a musician! ) but check my website for more infos and sounds. I also run a weekly evening" Out of the frying pan" in a great space every Wednesdays in Stoke newington, the Others please check out the myspace page below and come down with your vibe ( good 4 sure !!) Peace ----------What the press says :" Bratoeff's voice is touched by an enigmatic introspective quality and stands out on a set of sombre serpentine elegance" Kevin LeGendre, "Acclaimed french guitarist performs his highly distinctive, at time edgy jazz that can swerve between painterly introspection and explosive rock solos" Time out, John Fordham ( Guardian, Jazz uk ) wrote about the Quartet " Subtle, spontaneous, informed contemporary jazz" The first album Between Lines was the Guardian and the Evening standards Cd of the week ****it is available in good records store and online at Amazon.co.uk or Jazzcds.co.uk
“Atmogat", a well known and respected electronic duo from Germany, after many EP releases, contributions on compilations and remixes for Tympanik audio and Hand productions, are ready to release their first full length album.” Trigger Event" reveals a world of intricate IDM/electronica experimentations, all with a futuristic approach that moves the electronic music standards a step further.
"Trigger Event" is coming early this December, enclosed in a beautiful Digipack CD designed by FKSD and featuring brilliant remixes by Access to Arasaka and NIKKA .
Thesis is the second release of Impulsive art, yet the first compilation album. -Deeply dedicated to the experimental – electronic scene brings you a brilliant and unique collection of sound-works by some of the best artists of the scene
Thesis features sound compositions by Andrey Kiritchenko , Mad EP, Keef Baker, Larvae, Spyweirdos, Moogulator, Atmogat, Tapage, Mobthrow, IP Neva, Abstractive Noise and Nole Plastique
Je suis tres heureux de voir que tu es allé de l avant dans ta passion.
Je me suis délecté de tes morceaux que j ai écoutés.
Ils sont tout simplement toi. Ta sensibilité est intacte. Comme je l ai connue. Mais elle a bien sûr murie :p
J'espere que l on attendra pas d'avoir 70 ans pour se revoir a nouveau autour d'une bonne biere, soit londonniene ou montpellieraine ;)
Si tu passes sur Montpellier, surtout n hesite pas a me le faire savoir ! Je ferai de meme si je passe a londre. Si tu a l occase, passe un bonjour a tes parents ainsi qu a ton petit frere ;)
"'Mr. Ears' sounds immense. Great solos, beautiful touch and wonderfully melodic...and the writing is brilliant." - Laurence Cottle
Hey! My world jazz fusion debut album 'Mr. Ears' is available to buy from TODAY! Just visit www.caimarlegarcia.com to purchase and for more information on the album and me!
Abstractive Noise "Mind Corrupter" EP net-release (cc) [IAd001]
Abstractive Noise, an experimental / music project of Panagiotis Pagonis, offers Impulsive Art the debut release of the new creative common net-releases [IAd001] series.
Experimenting with algorithmic composition and mathematic probabilities, Mind Corrupter build up an extraordinary glitchy, "random", bizarre, broken rhythmical complexity.
Hello! Georges Crébassa Project musique, formes, mouvements, couleurs... pour visionner le diaporama du précédent spectacle Arts Mêlés cliquez http://300gp.ovh.net/~georgesc/photos.htm
4-7 of June - FINDAMORALE FESTIVAL 2009, HOXTON, LONDON.
with SUPER double bills from Paris on 5th and 6th of June featuring
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2) - LINLEY MARTHE ( Joe Zawinul, Mino Cinelu, Dave Liebman, Trilok Gurtu, Richard Galliano) Project. You will have a rare chance to see these two bands on one night for the price of one!
Only at CHARLIE WRIGHT'S INTERNATIONAL (45 Pitfield Street, N1 6DA). For more info call 07918635328 or go www.myspace.com/charliewrights
mate how u doing? if u wanna have a listen i put up the gondelin of when we 1st played, and acheance from the live gig in france, have a listen, hope thats cool mate...
