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Interests
General
I am mainly interested in booklearning, book keeping, book binding: generally doing things by the book. Other interests include music, music making, making sweet music, musical sweets. I have a girlfriend called Adele who interests me. I have an array of interests: interest free interest, taxable interest, compound interest and interesting compounds. That is that.Music
Tortoise, Jeff Parker, Pedro Caldiera Cabral, Kraftwerk, McCoy Tyner, The Beach Boys, Stereolab, Boards of Canada, Stravinsky, Morton Feldman, The Necks, Cage, Ligeti, Satie, Moondog, Electelane, Gang of Four, Milton Naschimento,Krystof Komeda, The Beatles, Paul MCartney, Stephen Scott, Wire, Conlon Nancarrow, The High LLamas, Charles Ives, Jimi Tenor, Ivor Cutler, Dudley Moore Trio, Roy Budd, Spring Heeled Jack, Evan Parker, Rhys Chatham, The Kinks, Aaron Copland, Serge Gainsbourg, A Certain Ratio, Jim O'Rourke, George Shearing, Arthur Russell,Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, Georgio Moroder, Kenny Wheeler, Keith Tippett, Wanderlea, Jaga Jazzist, Jim O'Rourke,Faust,Aufgenhoben, Rhodri Davies, John Barry, Venetian Snares John Coltrane, Burt Bacharach, Miles Davis, Vince Guraldi, Don Pullen, Phil Niblock, Cornelius, Pierre Bachelet, Neu!, Cecil Taylor, John Taylor, Polar Bear,Peter Lemer,Crosby Stills & Nash, Tomas Dvorak, Gaz Nevada, Steve Reich, Paul Bley, Ahmad Jamal, Archie Shepp, Derek Bailey, Frank Sinatra, Alice Coltrane and many more!!Movies
The Pawnbroker,Rhinoceros, Five Easy Pieces, The Three Amigos, Powell and Pressburger Films, Watership Down, Finding Nemo, Get Carter, The Black Windmill, Laurel and Hardy Films,Public Information Films, Crap Action Films.Television
I love all the ChannelsBooks
Hardbacks and Paperbacks, Haynes Manuals.Heroes
Just for one day.
Details
- Status: In a Relationship
- Hometown: Cardiff
- Orientation: Straight
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
- Children: Someday
- Drink: Yes
- Education: Post grad
- Occupation: Musician
Blurbs
About me:
I am a Pianist and Composer living in Cardiff. I co-run The Jones O'Connor Group as well as playing in a number of other things. I also run a Noise/Improvisation Trio called Sound Engineer and write music for Contemporary Music Ensembles, Theatre and Dance Companies and T.V/Film Companies. I have worked with RuthisStrangerthanRichard Theatre,The Sherman Theatre, The New Music Collective/In Transit Ensemble, Linder Sterling, BBC, S4C, The Wales Jazz Composers Orchestra and even the Goldie Lookin Chain!I also teach Jazz and Free Improvisation at the RWCMD Junior Music Department...GROUPS ..
The Jones O'Connor Group
Sound Engineer
The Room Orchestra
The Rob Smith Onsombl
The Gareth Roberts Quintet
..AWARDS/COMMISIONS..
Best Unsigned Artist 2004 (P.R.S.Foundation)
Composer in Residence at The Brecon Jazz festival 2006
Commission for the Wales Jazz Composers Orchestra(P.R.S.F &Welsh Arts Council 2006)
The H.T.V Study award 2007
..DISCOGRAPHY..
The Jones O'Connor Group
A Crow for every Crow - 2007
Alpha - 2005
New Jazz Wales Vol 1 - 2003
The Room Orchestra
A Collection of Numbers E.P - 2004
Shapes I Cant Ignore E.P - 2004
Little Planets in the Wires(Slow Graffitti Compilation)-2003
Goldie Lookin Chain
Greatest Hits
..QUOTES..
Sound Engineer
"Cardiff’s pioneering experimental music group" - Chapter Arts Centre
"An experimental workout taking in jazz, krautrock and electronic soundscapes...not to be missed" Slow Graffiti
The Jones O'Connor Group
"a seemingly bottomless well of resources and influences" - Jazzviews
"Compositionally, the record [Alpha] is hip and unpredictable...What's more the players are on the money, in particular Paul Jones - a sensitive fender rhodes player on 'True Story' or blazing like McCoy on 'Sonista'. Richard Jones is also a fine electric guitarist with chops and taste to spare...Excellent forward thinking brit jazz" **** Jazzwise Magazine
"Definitely one to watch" - Welsh Jazz Society
"Spacious Minimalism" The Western Mail
"Left of centre jazz that flirts with early 70's Miles Davis...Unsung hero's." Buzz Magazine
The Room Orchestra
Breakdown -"With a touch of Brian Wilson's world-weary angst, a quietly majestic piano line, and an elegant electronic backing that aims for perfect synthesis rather than body-rocking fun, this is a thoughtful take on the New Sensitivity" - Bethan and Huw BBC Wales
A Collection of Numbers - "A placid Krautrock treat, lead song 1/1 Rock is a hypnotic update of Bowie's "Heroes" without the melodrama and cocaine psychosis - possibly how the Thin White Duke might have sounded had he swapped the drugs for somnambulism back in 1977" BBc Wales
The Gareth Roberts Quintet
"Jones is maybe the real ace in the hole of the band: his chordal mastery is a malleable glue for Roberts' harmonies, which try to conjure up ghosts of Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner and Burt Bacharach all in the space of a single track" Massimo Ricci - Touchingextremes
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Who I'd like to meet:
Under the Sea
Comments
Jun 8 2009 3:51 PM
Mar 12 2009 4:48 PM
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Oct 27 2008 5:56 PM
Greetings from Phranc-O-forte.
Worsel
Aug 20 2008 12:49 PM
This is going to be amazing! 2 days of fantastic music on a beautiful site in the Lake District overlooking the southern shores of Lake Windermere, with a selection of excellent bands as chosen by us & the lovely people at Fell Foot Wood.
Passes for music and camping are a bargain at £16/person for the weekend or £9/day (vehicles are £2 per extra per night). Bookings with card payment must be made in advance by calling Barry at Fell Foot Wood on 015395 31014. There are only 170 spaces, so book early!
Friday 29th August from 5pm:
Lake Me / Hub / Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon /John Fairhurst / Death in Public / Mirrorkill
Saturday 30th August from 5pm:
randomNumber / Wintermute / The Declining Winter /Glissando / Mato and the Deep Blue Sea / Dan Haywood’s New Hawks
More info at Forest of Sound & Fell Foot Wood.
Apr 28 2008 2:11 PM
Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument.
A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals.
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The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker.
What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film".
He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
A Forest of Sound presentation.
Tickets are £10 and are available from We Got Tickets and Jumbo Records.
It’ll be £12 on the doors, and doors are at 8pm.
Join the Last FM fun here.
Mar 17 2008 3:51 PM
Golden Diskó Ship combines a mass of instruments and found objects (guitars, viola, glockenspiel, sticky tape, compact disc cases, toys…) together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music - “…dreamy, experimental folk electronica that sounds like walking on the beach with the sun in your eyes."
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Hands and Fingers makes minimally gorgeous cerebral music. He mixes samples, acoustic guitars, glockenspiel and ambient atmospheres with drum breaks that have been described as "Tortoise having a fight with Four Tet in the dark, with John Bonham trying to split them up". It's ace. Very ace.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’s £4 on the door, doors are 8pm.
Join the Last FM fun here.
Mar 12 2008 5:09 PM
Feb 19 2008 9:14 AM
Apologies for shitness of communication - won't bother with excuses of busy etc. - just listened to your keyboard piece, I like it. Will call you ... maybe very soon.
Feb 18 2008 11:43 PM
http://www.unreleasedtones.com
Feb 14 2008 1:10 PM
Alas, the first Forest of Sound of 2008 has been disrupted. Capulet have had to pull out as one of their number has been asked to support The Smashing Pumpkins in his other role in Oceansize… but fear not, the super talented James Yates has been added to the bill.
Dirge are a find that got the Forest of Sound camp very, very excited. Based around a minimalist core Dirge take the raw emotion and sweeping bleak sounds from the post-rock canon and fuse them with story telling and lyricism of lo-fi indie and folk and slowcore beauty.
Her Name Is Calla are astoundingly good. Watching these guys play is like watching a force of nature threatening to destroy everything around you - the power, beauty and effect of their music has to be seen live to be appreciated.
CHARLIESHERO are a band who read from the post rock canon and spit it back out with blistering energy and conviction. This kind of music lives and dies in the playing - the dynamics, the passion, the sheer force of it all... Luckily, they've got all that down just right.
James Yates’ solo show is something to behold - organic electronics, perfect drums, spot on percussion and mad-as-a-hatter inventiveness.
A Forest of Sound presentation. Tickets are £5 on the door, doors are 7.30pm.
Join the Last FM fun here.
Feb 2 2008 12:28 PM
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Jan 12 2008 3:30 PM
Hope you had a great christmas and new year!! Weve just finished our 2nd CD, songs are now up on our myspace. Weve also set up our own website www.sleepgoodfeelgood.com where you can listen to all the tracks with selected free downloads! Please have a look & listen and let us know what you think. Hope you enjoy if you do please join our mailing list on the contact page for up-to-date info. Hope to hear from you - all the best in 2008!
sgfg
Dec 11 2007 12:27 PM
Camped out somewhere in deepest, iciest Iceland, Sketches for Albinos (a.k.a. Matthew Collings) makes music from the ends of the earth. Utterly unique, SfA has all the musical adventure of John Mcentire, Tortoise or Kevin Shields without sounding a bit like any of them. Mr. Collings makes a sound that manages to be both truly heartfelt and organic, but also encompassing the majestic glacial soundscapes that would make the likes of Tim Hecker or Christian Fennesz proud.
Escalade (aka Greg Sullivan) is a project based in Tokyo, Japan. Originally from New York, USA, Sullivan embarked on a self-imposed exile to New Zealand. Greg makes skewed alt. rock/pop in the vein of Thurston Moore/Hood/Television... and stands way way way apart from his peers. Why? This is music with room-to-breath, with an natural understanding of the perfect lazy melody, calm insistence, and plenty of space to think. Lovely.
worriedaboutsatan are firm Forest of Sound favourites. Why? Guitars that clear out your brain with a true understanding of how 6 strings can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up... all underpinned with the kind of minimal techno Richie Hawtin would sell his new haircut for. Computer music is boring live? No f**king way!
A Forest of Sound presentation. Tickets are £5 on the door, doors are 7.30pm.
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Nov 28 2007 3:45 PM
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Oct 30 2007 11:03 PM
The Chap! The Chap! They make indie-electro-punk-electronica-rock-pop fun. They make slow tunes, but they make FAST tunes. They're known for their energetic live shows which often end with exploding violins and cellos. They're so much fun it's almost obscene. COME ON!
Also joining the bill are the brilliant purveyors of some of best live shows you'll ever see Fonda 500, as well as aceness in the form of The Debuts and local funpunk rocking beats legends Cowtown
Tickets are £5 advance from We Got Tickets and £6 on the door.
Get yourself down!
Oct 20 2007 3:19 PM
Hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, Audrey make stunningly beautiful music. Four part vocal harmonies combine with lush organic instrumentation to conjure up the feeling that you're watching a winter morning's sunrise, but with a sense of nagging unease... (ahem). Comparisons to Low, Sigur Ros and Red House Painters are spot on in terms of quality, but miss that certain something that makes Audrey so captivating. Forest of Sound can't believe its luck in getting them to come to Leeds. They're amazing.
Also joining the bill are the brilliant Paul Marshall and Laura Groves.
Tickets are £5 advance from We Got Tickets and £6 on the door.
Get yourself down!
Oct 16 2007 7:49 PM
Oct 6 2007 2:04 PM
Sep 13 2007 11:52 AM
Golden Diskó Ship is a Berlin based musician who combines a mass of instruments and found objects together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music.
She’s embarking on her first UK tour this September, and is visiting:
15/9 - Leeds - Packhorse
16/9 - Manchester - Cafe Saki
17/9 - Margate - QUBAR
18/9 - London - Betsey Trotwood
19/9 - Sowerby Bridge - The Vine
20/9 - Lancaster - The Yorkshire House (w. Josh T. Pearson)
21/9 - Leeds – Packhorse
Get yourself down!
Jun 8 2007 10:02 AM
Keith Tippett Tapestry Orchestra – Live at Le Mans
Jun 6 2007 1:42 PM
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May 25 2007 4:51 PM
Halal Kebab Hut’s new album, Kebabish is now free to download from
www.halalkebab.co.uk