Early influences Debussy, Bach, Ravel, Schoenberg, Scarlatti, some prog rock, won't mention which ones, no need to. Eric Dolphy, Art Tatum, Glenn Gould, for his formidably relaxed executions.
I play piano and electronic keyboards. And I live in a great place, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. I was born just down the road by the sea and sand dunes, on the Fylde coast, a vast expanse of light, space and a place to make pictures, pots and music. Since moving to Lancaster 16 years ago I have devoted all of my energies to making music, completely made in the moment, improvised!
Since the world has changed again, I have been staging more gigs locally, I play with some great musicians, Gulliver Maxwell an alto saxophone player and vocalist Steve Lewis, Lancastrian players. My first band was with Steve Lewis and George McKay (Charivari) in 1995. I have toured consistently since 1996, in Grew Trio with the great Mancunian players, drummer Phillip Marks and sax/electronics player Richard Scott who I met through Steve Lewis in 1995. We have mainly performed in Britain but also performed in prestigious Modern music festivals in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Latvia and Canada.
In 2000 Richard Scott left Grew trio and after a duo collaboration with Sheffield based sax/bassoon player Mick Beck, Mick joined Grew trio to form Grew Quartet in 2006, with Oxford based bass player Dominic Lash.
At times I have had to work as a shop keeper, assembler of golf trolleys, gardener and fisherman. My current work takes me to working in Grutronic, (Myspace.com/grutronicmusic) with guests Evan Parker, Orphy Robinson, Paul Obermayer and Grew quartet, a recent Orchestral project with Nicholas Grew and duos featuring violinist Graham Clark, drummer Tony Bianco, Phillip Marks, and drummer / electronics musician David Ross all of whom are based outside of Lancaster.
Our music comes out of a need to play music and communicate with sound at the moments of creating it, this process becomes very refined over many years. The long periods of time devoting the workman like instrumentalists approach to making this kind of music, creates a greater clarity of playing and composing, until a bit of magic conversation appears!
Really wonderful things take you somewhere and change you even if you didn't ask for it!
2010 sees the 25th anniversary of Lancaster Musicians' Co-op! And to celebrate we want to make the co-op better than ever by improving facilities, providing more and better equipment for it's users and generally celebrating in a kick ass way! But the co-op needs YOUR help!
Please help us out by joining our Facebook group to catch up on the latest news, see photos from over the years, exchange ideas, get involved in next year's improvement campaign as well as find out about benefit gigs and parties!
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On Monday 28th September 2009, Café Concrete will include performances by Jamell Ackford, Concrete Belly and the Oddstep Deployment Unit, plus a DJ set by ZX81. For more information please go to www.cafe-concrete.co.uk
On Monday 27th July 2009, Cafe Concrete will feature The Diamond Family Archive, Robodub and InterVis 2.0: The Screen.
THE DIAMOND FAMILY ARCHIVE “Strange and tender songs built around layered loops of live guitar, lap steel and electronica. Leftfield, oddball and gorgeous, a beautiful and fragile noise and sublime lo-fi melancholia”- Stolen Recordings
ROBODUB “Low frequency isolation” Robodub brings aquatic sub-bass back from his recent Sync or Swim performance at Prince Regent Pool for the Brighton Fringe Festival.
INTERVIS 2.0: THE SCREEN A collaboration between sound artist, DJ Contort, media artist, siusoon (Winnie Soon) and performance artist, Eva Pang, The Screen is a live interactive audio-visual performance which employs body movement, everyday objects and video projection as a narrative to interact with audio-visual tools and music.
Café Concrete is on a mission to raise funds for future projects and is seeking donations for an auction in the autumn. Please see the attached for more information.
NEXT TIME AT CAFE CONCRETE Please note that there will be no Café Concrete event this August. The next will be on Monday 28th September 2009, and will include performances by Jack Marchment and Dynablade.
ABOUT CAFÉ CONCRETE Cafe Concrete is an intimate night of experimental electronica, sound art, film and music from the outer limits. It usually happens every last Monday of every month upstairs at the Voodoo Lounge, Plymouth, UK, from 830pm.
Electric Free Time Machine celebrate the launch of their debut album: ’mystery with hermit foil’ with a gig at the Yorkshire house in Lancaster.
ELECTRIC FREE TIME MACHINE - Lancaster
recent sound carriers for Damo Suzuki:From fast and bulbous blues stomps and vast experimental krautrock ambient strangeness, to abrasive shambolic metal, strange time shifts and delicate acoustic folk. www.myspace.com/eftm
albums at a special launch price of £4...so thats £5 for an amazing night of music and a brand spanking new bespoke embossed digipack album...have mercy
Cafe Concrete is an intimate night of experimental electronica, sound art, film and music from the outer limits. It usually happens every last Monday of every month upstairs at the Voodoo Lounge, Plymouth, UK, from 830pm.
On Monday 29th June 2009, Cafe Concrete will feature performances by nU-tacK and ELM-K, plus a DJ set by Nick Grew. Follow the links to find out more about the artists at www.cafe-concrete.co.uk
CAFE CONCRETE NEWS Cafe Concrete is releasing a CD of improvisational trio ELM-K's Fragmented Orchestra performance, which was recorded live at the Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth, UK in December 2008. A version of what was played was received at various international sites, including SARC in Belfast and Stamford University. ELM-K performed concurrently with Pauline Oliveros. Material from Oliveros was relayed back to the Roland Levinsky Building. The 11 track CD contains almost 80 minutes of cinematic soundscapes ranging from the elegant and expansive to the explosive and abrasive. It will be available at a special price at Cafe Concrete on 29th June, and excerpts from it can be heard at www.myspace.com/elmkuk
NEXT MONTH AT CAFE CONCRETE On Monday 27th July 2009, Cafe Concrete will include performances by The Diamond Family Archive, Winnie Soon & Eva Pang and Robodub.
Café Concrete is an intimate night of experimental ambient electronica, sound art, film and music from the outer limits. It usually happens every last Monday of every month upstairs at the Voodoo Lounge, Plymouth, UK, from 830pm.
On Monday 25th May 2009, Café Concrete will feature performances by Jonny3snareS, The Eular Beta Function, Winnie Soon & Eva Pang, and William Amery (Not the Avant-Garde).
cafe concrete news The Café Concrete Plymouth City Project (CCPCP) film/sound works are still being shown on the BBC Big Screen in Armada Way, Plymouth. Civic Centre by Tim Dickinson & ZX81 is pictured above.
Café Concrete is an intimate night of experimental ambient electronica, sound art, film and music from the outer limits. It usually happens every last Monday of every month upstairs at the Voodoo Lounge, Plymouth, UK, from 830pm.
On Monday 27th April 2009, Café Concrete will feature performances by Pocket Magnetic and Concrete Belly, plus a DJ set by Gecko Hooks. Find out more about the artists and hear samples of their work by following the link above.
NEXT TIME AT CAFE CONCRETE On Monday 25th May 2009, Café Concrete will include performances by The Eular Beta Function and Jonny3Snares.
CAFE CONCRETE NEWS The BBC is currently showing individual Café Concrete Plymouth City Project (CCPCP) works in rotation on the Big Screen in Armada Way, Plymouth. The works were shown collectively over the Easter weekend, and will be shown again over two weekends between now and the end of May. Please see the link above for more details. DVDs/CDs of the complete eleven film/sound works are available at Café Concrete events, online or at Plymouth Art Centre.
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