Tom Challenger Dave Smith Matt Calvert Ross Stanley
Tom also plays for and with Red Snapper, Outhouse, Dice Factory, Heritage Orchestra, Typewritten, Porpoise Corpus, John Randall, Hannes Reipler, Tom Rogerson and Charles Hayward - see top friends.
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Early Lifetime jamming Messiaen’s organ works with Fennesz, Deathprod, Lee Perry and Coltrane.
Press: "Ma. are sure to carve out their own space within Europe’s electronic/improvisation landscape, with a distinctive sound moving between serene Boards Of Canada-esque layers, explosive noise-improv in the vein of Norway’s Supersilent, Tortoise-style beats and dark, abstract dub soundworlds. With members of Red Snapper, Three Trapped Tigers, The Heritage Orchestra, Outhouse and Nostalgia 77 it’s not surprising that Tom Challenger’s heady, often Messiaen-inspired material is subject to such a multi-pronged interpretation.
The quartet is powered by Dave Smith’s percussive flow, by turns sensitive and tumultuous, whilst Matt Calvert’s Fennesz-meets-Lee Perry electronics weave between the melodic focus of Challenger’s sax and the textural glue of Ross Stanley’s organ and rhodes."
Contact/Booking: tomchallenger@hotmail.com
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"'Mr. Ears' sounds immense. Great solos, beautiful touch and wonderfully melodic...and the writing is brilliant." - Laurence Cottle
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Hey Tom, how's it going man? Hope alls groving. Just wanted to give you a heads up that we're doing a double bill with Billy Jenkins tomorrow night at Pangea Project, 72 Stamford Hill. It's gonna be killing! peace out Jamie
