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Simon Bradley (cello)
Mark Webber (electronics)
S&M Combo (erstwhile S&M) started in 2004 as a development from a previous collaboration as interestfreetelevision. Discarding the use of samplers, loops, processing and computing, S&M Combo focused on free improvisation with their core instruments: oscillators and cello. The duo combines many extraordinarily unlikely sounds that lie poised over the visceral interface of harsh mechanical noise coupling with serene minimalist beauty. The initial simplicity and immediacy of their improvisation gives rise to ever more complex and exotic, aleatory forms. By exploring both the delicacy and raw power of such simple systems they are musically part Jonathan Harvey and part Whitehouse, or like a physics lecture gone astray.
Simon and Mark have worked together over the past few years on a variety of projects and have played at events such as the Leeds International Film Festival, Termite Club Festival as well as at the respected Klinker Club and Bohman Brothers’ nights in London.
S&M Combo completed its first UK tour in autumn 2007, sponsored by Jazz Services.We would like to thank everyone who helped make it possible - it was a great success, and we intend to do more gigs in due course
Three CDs available from ask@sandmcombo.com
2004 S&M Sessions
2007 Too Two
2008 sampler CD released by Amp Tower
Check out www.sandmcombo.com now and again, but there's not much there yet apart from a link to here. S&M.... Combo Yah!
We record all our live work and intend to release a compilation at some point. In the meantime, we are entering a dormant phase due to work commitments.
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