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davidleahy
Acoustic / Experimental / Fusion

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Faversham
United Kingdom

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Member Since7/2/2006
Band Websitewww.dafmusic.com
Band MembersLondon Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) Up to 35 -40 people including Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, Dave Tucker, Tony Marsh, Terry Day, Lol Coxhill, Paul Rutherford, Philipp Wachsmann, John Edwards, Christoph Irmer, etc. + ----- http://www.myspace.com/londonimprovisersorchestra ___________________________________________________________________________ FoA (Fate of Animals) A collective with a floating line-up that comprising of Aaron Robertson (guitar) Angeline Conaghan (vocals) Ashley Wales (electronics) Jamie McCarthy (violin) Javier Carmona (drums) and myself (db) ----- http://www.myspace.com/fateofanimals ___________________________________________________________________________ Aka Free Chefa Alonso (sax), Ashley Wales (electronics), Javier Carmona (percussion) and myself (db) ___________________________________________________________________________ Pioneers A new music in theatre work that is already generating quite a level of excitement. Booking now for Autumn. Angeline Conaghan (voice and guitar), Ben Brewer (guitar and voice) and myself (db and voice) ----- http://www.myspace.com/3pioneers
InfluencesCharles Mingus, Barre Phillips, Dave Holland, Danny Thompson, Eberhard Weber, Andrew Hill, Greg Brown, John Prine, They might be Giants, Primus, Tim Buckley, Dave Dobbyn, Six Volts and all the fantastic musicians around me.

Finger Painting Review

From the Double bassist - spring 2007.
David Leahy (db, pf, mbira, bullroarer)

Ex-pat New Zealand bass player David Leahy is now a regular fixture on the UK's improvised music scene. Finger Painting is his debut solo album, and treats the double bass as the still point of a turning world that incorporates his piano backings and the occasional droll vocal. It's a good-natured jaunt that demonstrates Leahy's versatility and the breadth of his stylistic affiliations. He has christened his bass 'Nigeria' and in an amusingly penned cartoon, Leahy shows how Nigeria was linked to various gizmos in the recording process including a digital looper, Mbox and Pro Tools. On the first track, Bathtime, the bass becomes reinvented as something approaching a finger-piano and percussion orchestra; I'm not qualified to say exactly what kind of ethnic music Leahy is referencing, but his melodic material has a strong personality and the interaction between parts is effortlessly relaxed and loose. Later bass textures are nudged towards mesmerising looped patterns, as the digital looper picks up one of Leahy's phrases and does its thing. Looping can be a blunt tool for creative music, but Leahy shows great discernment in the placement and duration of his loops. My Relationship with Driving finds him exploring funky slapped bass figurations that wouldn't be alien to Milt Hinton; while elsewhere background piano riffs support Leahy's nimble fingered, melodically percussive bass patterns. Finger Painting is a very enjoyable and conceptually sophisticated Leahy primer.

PHILIP CLARK

Sounds Like Musicians I play with and images from some of my travels
Record Labeldafmusic
Type of LabelIndie


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Oct 28 2009 8:00P
until the 8 Nov 2009 - Misterioso @ Riverside Studios 020 8237 1111 London, London and South East
Nov 8 2009 8:00P
Last performance of Misterioso @ Riverside Studios 020 8237 1111 London

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Goto http://www.seethrewmusic.com/pioneersvideoblog.htm to find out what I am doing at the moment (on tour in New Zealand). ___________________________________________________________________________ 'Musicofdaf' is the music of David Leahy, which may be me solo on the double bass playing loopy improvisations or me playing free-improvisation or contemporary folk with friends. ___________________________________________________________________________ Although I live a little out of London I tend to spend a lot of time in the city playing on the free-music scene in a number of different groups. These include; London Improvised Orchestra (30 piece orchestra with some of the UK's leading players on the scene), Akafree (A free jazz/improv quartet), FoA (free duo with Aaron Robertson in Paris), A free trio with Angeline Conaghan (of Barkmusic) and Jamie McCarthy (dogheadme) and a few others. ___________________________________________________________________________ On the more folky and acoustic side of things; I have been playing a very long time with Deirdre Starr (irish pianist/singer based in Wicklow) and we are planning to record in November in preparation for another tour of Germany in 2007, Dha (indian fusion group based in London) and again with Angeline Conaghan and a guitarist Ben Brewer, and we are working on a sort of musical documentary that we hope to get on the road some time in 2007. ___________________________________________________________________________ The solo material has just been released on a cd entitled 'finger painting' and is available now through my website. The music on the cd has been influenced a lot by the work that I do with contemporary dance and theatre. I have a number of other releases available through me and also through Emanem (free improv stuff) and yelloweye (cd's from my new zealand past). ___________________________________________________________________________ Aside from the music I also enjoy Contact Improvisation and I am constantly trying to blend my movement and musical interested together. ___________________________________________________________________________ Leahy's section was the most dynamic, impressive in its physical abandon (from a review for the LIO. Martin Longley The Independant Jan 2006)

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Aaron Koppel

Aaron Koppel



Nov 7 2009 11:54 PM

We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it.
Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago

Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums

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Jean-Phi

Jean-Phi



Nov 4 2009 11:58 PM


Sicéfou
chorégraphie de Jean-Christophe Bleton
avec Marina Ligeron, Tara Pilbrow,
Cyrille Bochew et Jean-Philippe Costes-Muscat et 12 danseurs amateurs
création sonore : Hélène Coeur
lumière : Frédéric Dugied
vendredi 6 novembre à 20 h 30La Sucrerie - Coulommiers
77, rue du Général Leclerc 77120 Coulommiers
réservations : 01 64 03 88 09
Si vous aimez danser dans votre salon, ou dans le hall de votre immeuble, au mariage de votre cousine ou simplement en tricotant, si vous jouez encore avec les lignes de trottoirs et si en marchant vous entendez de la musique, alors vous avez sûrement une place dans notre spectacle.
 

Jean-Philippe ICHARD

Jean-Philippe ICHARD



Oct 26 2009 11:48 AM

Hi!
Thanks for your friendship

Greetings from PARIS
Jean-Philippe



Jean-Phi

Jean-Phi



Oct 17 2009 2:16 PM

Avec l'ensemble de Sound Painting ANITYA, nous allons jouer ce dimanche 18 octobre à 17h30 à La Nef 20 rue Rouget de L'Isle à Pantin métro Eglise de Pantin (attention ce dimanche la ligne est fermée entre république et Jaurès).
A cette occasion nous collaborerons avec les comédiens marionnettistes de La Nef.
Habillez vous bien car l'espace un peu froid.
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à cette occasion
A Fula’s Call

A Fula’s Call



Oct 5 2009 12:08 PM

jarama!
Emmajupe

Emmajupe



Oct 3 2009 8:29 AM


 

Lotz Of Music

Lotz Of Music



Oct 1 2009 7:52 AM

Brilliant performance here!
DIATRIBES

DIATRIBES



Sep 27 2009 2:54 PM

DIATRIBES+JOAO PEDRO VIEGA+PAULO CURADO
Travessia dos Respigadores


freejazz/electroacoustic improv album on TEST TUBE netlabel
music under CC by-nc-nd, copy & share it, thanks


Desperado Housewives

Desperado Housewives



Aug 31 2009 11:41 PM

How's life on the run in NZ ? You could get all clogged up with sausage rolls and egg sandwiches.
Riccardo Lombardo

Riccardo Lombardo



Jul 12 2009 10:08 AM

thank you for the kind add and the very interesting music. Riccardo
Flibbity Jibbet

Flibbity Jibbet



Feb 7 2009 5:16 PM

I really enjoyed your set at New Year/New Sounds last night.
Filomena Campus

Filomena Campus



Jan 2 2009 8:09 AM

Hi David!
happy new year,hope to see you on Sat at the Schlot, and we'll come to see your show on Sunday
Fx
hiROki

hiROki



Nov 20 2008 8:36 PM

Thank you for your friendship.
hiROki from Tokyo

Daniel Barbiero

Daniel Barbiero



Oct 2 2008 11:19 PM

Fascinating!
Jean Bordé

Jean Bordé



Aug 16 2008 12:01 AM

Hello, on 17th, 18th and 19th 2008, 8pm.
FÊTE QUAQUA @ The Vortex
11 Gillett Sq. London N16 8JH (tube: Dalston Kingsland) London, N16 8JH

Annual festival of improvised music, featuring:
DYLAN BATES violin / JEAN BORDÉ double bass / CHRIS BURN trumpet / JOHN BUTCHER saxophone / LOL COXHILL saxophone / MAX EASTLEY self-made instruments / BILL HSU interactive computer / HANNAH MARSHALL cello / JOHN RUSSELL guitar / PAUL G. SMYTH piano / ROGER TURNER percussion / UTE WASSERMANN voice
http://www. mopomoso. com/
Dr.Kaolimba

Dr.Kaolimba



Jul 29 2008 9:42 PM

Hello!! from Japan!

Thank you for the add!

Have a good week!

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SUREAU

SUREAU



Apr 21 2008 1:01 PM

hello boss of the bass !!
Are you in London 16th - 20th may ?
I will be...
I send you all my best thoughts -J-M
Jean D (who plays in Sureau) as well
Gary Rouzer

Gary Rouzer



Mar 18 2008 11:24 PM

Lovely music!
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg

Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg



Jan 23 2008 6:22 PM

Hello Boss (bass ...)
Thanks a lot being friends on myspace and for the friendly support you give me from the start. Love your bass-dance thing..... you're great.
I hope to meet you in London (16th may up to 20th incl.) duos with HM, Jav , and some surprise. Cheers.
Gavinski

Gavin Duncan



Jan 10 2008 1:37 PM

Yo David, howzit goin'? Hope life is good with you. Up to our knees in snow here - seasonal weather for a change, yee-hah.
How's life in Englandshire?
Hernani Faustino

Hernani Faustino



Dec 23 2007 11:41 PM

Hi David
many thank's for the add
great playing on your page
greetings from Lisbon
Steve Cournane

Steve Cournane



Dec 12 2007 6:59 PM

Hey thanks Davey..just put up the Third Time Love version from the gig as well. I really like it and think that I could never recreate that kind of chaos (your trombone, I particularly like) in the studio, so I consider it a final version with a little mixing one day. Hope you are well buddy.
Orquesta FOCO. Musicalibre.

Orquesta FOCO. Musicalibre.



Dec 9 2007 3:24 PM

Hey Dave, Thanks for adding us.
Do you still have some pictures from FOCO from when you went to conduct us?, could send it to Ricardo?.
Un abrazo from all
Richard Kaby

Richard Kaby



Nov 28 2007 10:30 PM

Great to meet you last week David. What a great show! There are some photos on Flickr - just double click the one below to link there and find the set.
2007_1123Misterioso0049
Jean Bordé

Jean Bordé



Nov 15 2007 2:50 AM

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