Wobble Top: Tom on drums, Pedro Velasco on guitar, Gaz Wilkins on moog, Gary Foote on tenor, Joy Ellis on vocals and electric piano, Gnanam Samuel on violin, Dan Spanner on vocal, alto and bowl, Mike Wade on baritone. mixed by Dan from improvisations at The Blackhorse...................................
Oiliyi, Punk Jazz Spanner, Flute Flight: Rob Pennel drums, Vicky Tilson bass, Pedro Velasco guitar, Joy Ellis electric piano, Gaz Wilkins moog, Yann Touzet trumpet, James Marsh baritone, Dan Spanner alto, Gnanam Samuel violin. mix by Steve Band. Recorded in a drama studio at Middlesex University............................
Haitian Fight Song: most of the above with added: Mike Searl drums, Wayne Martin, Jack, Steve Chadwick trumpets, Dave Hill, Gareth Jones, Ben Gregory trombones, Jon Shone piano, Olmo Cassiba, Bettina Schmidt saxes........................................................................................................................................... Current band includes: Dan Sapnner, Gary Foote, Mike Wade, Liz Palmer, Gnanam Samuel, Yann Touzet, Nick Richards, Ben Gregory, Gaz Wilkins, Pedro Velasco, Joy Ellis, Costa Tancredi, Mike C
Influences
Frank Zappa, Django Bates, Carla Bley, Uri Caine, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Charlie Mingus, Charlie Haden, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, John Stevens, Holgar Czukay,The Beatles, Pink Floyd...
Now operating as a 12-piece band of eclectomaniacs
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free... experimental... psychedelic... comic... funk... subversive... european folk... punkjazz... big band swing... balkan... tango... classical... medieval... country... pop... rock... circus... ska... klezmer... goatherd... silk road... ambient....................................................................................................
Early incarnations of the band included Paul Chousmer (Another Green World/Webcore)-organ, Nick Van Gelder (Ozric Tentacles/Jamiroqui)-drums, Stuart Zender (Jamiroqui)-bass, ‘Generator’ John Schuchard (Ullulators)-drums.......................................................................................................
Whilst on tour with French Circus, ‘Archaos’ and Space-Rock band, ‘The Thunderdogs’, Dan created the Spannerman Performance Band. This was like a circus with the band calling the shots not the other way round. Personnel included 2 drummers and up to a dozen circus performers. The Spannertwins show became legendary in the circus world, touring the English festival circuit, France and Australia...................................................................................................
Dan reformed the band as a 17 piece swing band but with Sun Ra, Charlie Mingus and his past infiltrating the rehearsals, the Spanner Jazz Punks concept emerged with an eclectic mix of styles… A high level of musicianship and diverse instruments such as moog, strings, accordion, oud, recorders, hurdy-gurdy, as well as the more usual sound of drums, bass, reeds, brass, guitars, organ, voices.................................................................................
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Thanks for the add! I enjoyed listening to the tracks on your myspace page. Interesting version of "Haitian Fight Song." I've never heard it meshed with "Stolen Moments" & the "Hawaii Five-O" theme song, very unique. In may we did the Mingus Awareness Project here in Chicag, that was a lot of fun.
Jah Wobble's latest project - Chinese Dub, will be a fusion of dub music and Chinese melodies and instrumentation. The instrumentation will be: bass, drums, Guzheng, bamboo flute, the gourd pipe of Yunnan province. Jah Wobble will also utilise the voice of Wang Jingqi, , a singer from the Mao ethnic minority of China (part of Yunnan province) and Gu YingJi, a Tibetan singer (her father is Tibetan, and her mother is Mongolian). During the performance, we will feature various Chinese arts forms, such as Tang Dyasty dance and Sichuan opera’s specialty- the mysterious 'Mask Change'. The ‘Face Mask Change’ is a unique Chinese art form. Its origin lays in the Sichuan opera. The Mask Change began 300 years ago and as time goes by, the technique is constantly worked upon and improved. This art form is now considered as one of the top folk skills in China and is on top of their list of protected arts.
For hundred of years, this secret arts form was only passed down by family and was forbidden to female performers. However, female performers can now be seen on stage as mask change masters. All performers who are chosen to learn this art form have to swear to secrecy before they allow to learn even its basics. It takes them many years of hard practise to master the skill.
In China, there are less than 200 artists who are able to perform ‘the mask change’
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