HOT AND RICH rinkadon - reeds, flute, melodica bob ormrod - reeds, harmonica
ZELIG helen baines - clarinets yvonne magda - violin rinkadon - accordion, tenor jonny flockton - guitar, mandolin, banjo paul moore - tuba
JAZZ MUNDO rinkadon - reeds, accordion rod taylor - violin paul martin - guitar andy rawson - guitar chris topman - double bass ali pryde - drums
JAM FACTORY community orchestra based in blackburn, lancashire
DALES JAM community orchestra based in skipton, yorkshire
Influences
william burroughs samuel beckett pixinguinha eric morecambe georges perec johnny dodds slavoj zizek abdullah ibrahim robert wyatt chris macgregor robert crumb alfred korzybski elvin jones mike osborne joan miro raymond queneau earl bostic john zorn tommy mccook herman melville ornette coleman groucho marx memphis slim lord buckley alexandro jodorowsky mervyn peake kevin coyne bob ormrod flann o'brien tim berne captain beefheart james booker jean genet duke ellington jack vance dr seuss gary u.s. bonds jimmy giuffre scott joplin james ellroy jerzy grotowski dudu pukwana sonny simmons john tchicai kurt weill the vikings wassily kandinski akira kurosawa eric dolphy sun ra james joyce jean lescure paul hession john coltrane pedro almodovar thelonious monk barney bigard harpo marx pina bausch james chance tommy cooper philip k dick ennio morricone stanislaw lem wardell gray gabrielle mirabassi charles lloyd ellery eskelin ben webster lol coxhill matt bourne fernando arrabal steve berry spike milligan thomas pynchon
Sounds Like
rinkadon
Love for Tink
90%
Spaghetti Westerns
75%
Dr. Seuss
70%
Terrible Wrongness
70%
Home-made schnitzel
70%
Xavier Cugat
57%
Health Paranoia
52%
Catwoman
50%
Gherkins
50%
Quaker's Porridge Oats
42%
Cross-trainers
40%
Eb Tenor Horn
25%
A Humdinger! Damn, they don't make 'em like me any more. If I had another ten men like me I'd turn this couuntry around, I'd show them what's what... What? WHAT?? Makes me proud just lookin' at me standin' there, young and lean and dressed like a fetishist.
As Dudu Pukwana said, "I don't care about...I just want to burn"
Or Ornette Coleman, from Soapsuds, "When I played my music, my saxophone playing was not liked. Some players play their instruments as their tour de force in music. I always try to make music my tour de force, not the instrument."
Or Beckett, "When you're up to your neck in shit, all you can do is sing"
"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution." - Igor Stravinsky
"We are the rats that build the labyrinth from which we plan to escape." - Raymond Queneau
Music has kept me healthy and happy for twenty years and I expect it to carry on in this vein for another forty. To keep the quote quota up, Keith Tippett said something once about improvised music being used to heal people sometime in the future, and I quite agree (but I'm not a crank, ok?). I'm one of the most fortunate people I know, in being able to do things I love on a daily basis without undue interference. Then again, let's wait and see (William Burroughs, "The outcome is in doubt.").
Recently I've been having lots of fun playing with the amazing and beautiful percussionist Paul Hession, as well as in the various ensembles I have been playing in. I'm particularly pleased with Home Of The Brave and Stockpot Stopcock makes me happy too. As does community music. Search for The Jam Factory or The Dales Jam to see the sterling work I've achieved in this area.
Hey Boyo...just a quick 'Hi!' I'm out of the Dam and knee deep in Toronto now, soif yer ever in these parts... Might be moving to England next year. Manchester to be precise. Maybe we can make some windy noise. Till then, keep on tootin'. Smiles, Aysha
CAFÉ OTO MONDAY 11th May 2009 Times : 8pm Marcos Baggiani (drums), Ricardo Tejero (reeds), John Edwards (double-bass) + Jeff Cloke (reson8), Hanna Marshal (cello). + Marcio Mattos (cello), Rodrigo Montoya (tsugaru-shamisen) and guest
Don't forget tomorrow (Tue 14) the Moose Factory comes to Leeds at the Brudenell Social Club featuring Matt Elliott (Balkan folk with technical wizardry) + Benjamin Wetherill (English whimsy with freakout sax) + 7 Hertz (chamber folk improv). 8pm. £4 if you follow the link:
Please check out our new comedic “vampire bankers” music video. The guy who directed this also directed Madonna’s first music vid. We think it’s pretty funny. It’s available as a free mp3 download on http://www.ukejackson.com
Thanks for being our friend! Uke Jackson and the NY Ukulele Ensemble
