CURRENT LIVE AND RECORDING PROJECTS - click artwork for links
[since 2001] - Collectress
Debut album, Mondegreen out on Peeler Records spring 2014
Glorious gigs in unlikely locations with the finest improvising ladies around.
Vimeo - Soundcloud - twitter - bandcamp
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[2005 - 2011] - Mary Hampton Cotillion
[2011] Folly - Tea spoon records
'Folly is very English, very unusual and proof that if you want to make art, you just have to ignore debilitating forces and get on with it.' **** - Will Hodgekinson - The Times
*** Voted #7 in fRoots critics poll and #5 in MOJO folk albums 2011 ***
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[2011] Honey in The Rock 7" - Rough Trade
The nice folk at Rough Trade really liked this song so did a 7" vinyl run. Check the breakneck video
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[2008] My Mother's Children Navigator Records
'mesmerising' **** - The Guardian
Song of Wandering Aengus
I've had the pleasure of writing and playing for her first 4 records. I still love it.
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[since 2002] - ViV
[2009] Sea Shells Listening
tv dinners are easier
'Rather good' - Ed Pinset - Resonance FM
Ongoing quiet improvisations with Al Strachan, Will Miles and Adam Bushell. New album in the offing ...
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[since 2011] - Caines and Eldridge
A documentation of wonderful afternoon soon after I first met Ron Caines (of East of Eden).
Spirit of Gravity (2015).
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[since 2008] - BIRs
Live set from Stutter, Melbourne. Dec 2008
Finally did some gigs with Ollie Bown after years of writing about it together.
More to follow I hope - when he next graces the northern hemisphere wth his presence.
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PAST LIVE PROJECTS AND RECORDING |
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[2008 - 2009] - The Vessel Project
Rod Walks
I was lucky enough to fall in with a great bunch of improvisers during my sojourn in Melbourne. The Vessel Project is a multi performer instrument which incorporates Film/Video into the instrument's structure.
[click image for more info].
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[2005 - 2008] >alice and her self-karaoke machines
The beetles ear view
Hands-free audio visual performance environments
Me, my cello and my laptop (and a projector) [click image for more info and here for old myspace]
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[2004] - BHC
storyteller
Storyteller
single out now on (Malinki
records 2004)
available from www.liannehall.com
Lianne wanted to go on tour. with an electric band. so i bought an electric
bass.
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[2004] Lianne and alice y patatas bravas (Malinki
records 2004)
five below
available from www.liannehall.com
A lo-fi ep lianne and i wrote and recorded one new year in barcelona (chez boo)
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[2000 - 2004] pthhh
Excerpt from a show at the Malborough, Brighton.
now sadly dismembered.
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[2000-2002] pico
all change
available from www.liannehall.com
Pico was many things in many places. I had the honour of playing 'cello in the
Lianne-Boo-Justin incantation of Pico doing the full spectrum from filthy
ketamin exodus parties under the M1 to the delights of the bbc Maidavale
studios for the Great Sir John (rip).
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[2003-2004] tundra
satellites (microclimate
2004)
extract
available from
www.tomsrecords
Tundra is Tom de Grundwalds massive post-rock 'vision'. I had the pleasure of
playing 'cello (and cornet badly) in the first year of gigs and this first ep.
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SESSION WORK AND COLLABORATION
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icarus
I tweet the birdy electric (leaf
2003)
gnog
available from www.amazon.co.uk
I did a bit of scratchy cell'ing for ollie and sam.
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they came from the
stars i saw them they came from the
stars i saw them vs reality ( norman records 2007 )
n/a
I made a small drunken late night contribution to horton's master piece back in 2002. its finally made it off his hard drive
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clearlake
cedars (domino 2003)
the mind is evil
available from
www.dominorecordco.com
a pthhh guest appearance on "the mind is evil".
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INSTALLATION, VIDEO ETC.
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Self Karaoke Pond
I got a bit frustrated with some 'interactive art' which didn't let you do very much. So this piece is an audio installation which makes the visitor create all the samples and then 'remixes' them using a generative system.
example using a harmonica and a comedy horn
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Metamorphosis
signal from the noise
Collaboration with Heather
Barnett during her Research Fellowship in Arts and Sciences. Working
with Phillip Minns (Madonna over Yorkshire), composed and produced a
multi-channel audio installation from interviews exploring role of creativity,
collaboration and experimentation in scientific research.
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Metamorphosis
a short film about
extract
Film sound tracks written and produced for same exhibition
Both pieces Exhibited at the Freise Greene Gallery, Brighton Media Centre Oct
2004.
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