London 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.
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----- http://www.myspace.com/londonimprovisersorchestra
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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
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Aka Free
Chefa Alonso (sax), Ashley Wales (electronics), Javier Carmona (percussion) and myself (db)
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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
Influences
Charles 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
Goto http://www.seethrewmusic.com/pioneersvideoblog.htm to find out what I am doing at the moment (on tour in New Zealand).
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Aside from the music I also enjoy Contact Improvisation and I am constantly trying to blend my movement and musical interested together.
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Leahy's section was the most dynamic, impressive in its physical abandon
(from a review for the LIO. Martin Longley The Independant Jan 2006)
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
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.
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
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
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/
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.
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.
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
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.
