ESSOUDRY/WELLMAN: Mike Essoudry (dr, clar), Linsey Wellman (alt, sop sax, b. clar, fl, alt fl);
UZUMAKI: Eldritch Priest (guit), Rory Magill (dr), David Broscoe (alto, bari sax, clar, bassoon), Linsey Wellman (b. clar, alto sax);
See also KOBO TOWN (kobotown on myspace), GALITCHA (galitcha on myspace)
Influences
Eric Dolphy, Bird, Coltrane, Ornette, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Evan Parker, Frank Gratkowski, Roscoe Mitchell, Ellery Eskelin, Lee Konitz, Bismillah Khan, Nusrat, Mohammed Reza Shajarian, Maxine Hong Kingston, Zadie Smith, Orhan Pamuk, José Saramago, Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe...
Sounds Like
A human being blowing into a metal (or sometimes wooden) pipe while opening and closing holes with its fingers, and occasionally singing or stamping its feet simultaneously.
Since receiving my Bachelor of Music degree from Carleton University in 2001, where I specialized in performance under Rob Frayne, I have been busy working in a variety of forms and bands from the experimental space sounds of Rakestar Arkestra to the Punjabi fusion of Galitcha, and from the Calypso derived Kobo Town to the world music tinged rhythm and blues of Ellen McIlwaine. I've been lucky to have played and recorded with such musicians as Rob Frayne, Yves Lambert, Hassan El Hadi, John Geggie and Petr Cancura, and to have played in such venues as the Ottawa Folk, Jazz and Blues Fesivals, the Guelph Jazz Festival, The Lincoln Centre Out of Doors Festival in New York City, Théatre Mohammed V in Rabat, Morrocco, The Centre Culturel Bir Lahjar in Tunis, Tunisia and Festival au Desert in Essakane, Mali.
In the fall of 2007 I released a disc with drummer Mike Essoudry exploring an intersection of free improvisation and world musics on the Montréal record label Malasartes, for which I received a grant from the City of Ottawa. I am currently working on a project for solo alto saxophone that I hope to record towards the end of 2009, for which I have received funding from the Ottawa Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. I also play saxophones, flutes and bass clarinet in the Worlds Collide project which combines gamelan ensemble Semara Winangun, Ghanaian drum and Dance troupe Akpokli and Sun Ra tribute band Rakestar Arkestra.
Hey Linsey, Hope , we'll make it as soon as possible to Canada.... I met David von die Strottern yesterday and told him that we met, Greetings back to you... See you soon hopefully
Hi Linsey - Yes it was great to mee you and the rest of Kobo Town. I hope that you..ll be at Winnipeg Folklorama in august 2010 (a big far ahead), a greenlandic delegation of performers are going, and it will be a awesome festival. Anyway, I hope your enjoying your summer tour, and have a great time in Europe too.
Hey Linsey, I play in this group with a guy that would love to come to you and play in Canada. We will exchange the favor and get you down here in the midwest. Lets do some gigs trio style. Guitar, electronics, and you. T
Video Concert "ROUND ABOUT 68" / Bruno TOCANNE "new dreams" Trio + Hasse POULSEN + Xlr Project - MAY 16th - Train Théâtre - Porte Les Valence Jazz Festival (France) Bruno Tocanne : dms; Hasse Poulsen : guit; Rémi Gaudillat : tpt, Lionel Martin : saxs, Nico Ticot : video http://www.imuzzic.net/4newdreams.html
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