Paul G Smyth
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Photo by Seán Kelly
Colin Somervell is as happy performing melodic free improvisation or playing in neo rembetica bands (Trio Tekke) and is also in demand as a free jazz musician.
Ade Southby is a Brighton based multi-instrumentalist equally at home exploring song form and free improvisation. He is a core member of Brighton’s Safehouse Collective and regularly collaborates in the heady free improv scenes of London and Brighton with many players, most frequently in duos with Matt Clark or Mark Wastell. When improvising he favours prepared guitar and alto clarinet. Today he will utilise the former.
Gina Southgate is best known on the international jazz scene where she produces spectacular, qualitative, real time paintings. For over three decades she’s painted at gigs and festivals capturing the vitality and nuance in her unique portraits of world class musicians.
Tansy Spinks is an artist and improviser who has played at tate Britain, the ICA, V&A, Café Oto, I’Klecktik, Hundred Years Gallery and has exhibited widely.
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Benedict Taylor is a leading figure within contemporary composition, modern string performance and improvised music in the British and European new music world. The central focus of his work is in new composition for live performance, film, theatre, contemporary dance, art installation and electro-acoustic composition. In performance, he predominantly works within improvisation, new composition and 20th/21st century music.
Daniel Thompson was born in Norfolk, England. Largely self-taught, after moving to London in 2005 Daniel embarked upon a life changing period. He studied with the guitarist John Russell for two years, spent many evenings listening to the trio of John Edwards, Tony Marsh and Evan Parker at The Vortex in East London and absorbed the free improvisation scene in and around LONDON. collectively this confirmed his musical direction.
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Photo by Chris Freeman
Photo by Seán Kelly
Roger Turner has been working as an improvising percussionist since the early 1970’s, collaborating in numerous established and ad hoc configurations.