Mark Lockheart (born Lymington, 1961) is a British jazz tenor saxophonist who came to prominence as a member of the Loose Tubes big band during the 1980s. Subsequently he played with Django Bates as well as in the group Perfect Houseplants featuring Dudley Phillips & Martin France. In 2001 the Arts Council of England awarded a grant for a tour by his Scratch Band who recorded an album "Imaginary Dances". More recently his compositions have been recorded with the NDR Big Band.
He has also played in sessions with Radiohead, Prefab Sprout, Stereolab and many others. Lockheart currently teaches at Trinity College of Music in London and at Middlesex University and is a tutor for the National Youth Jazz Collective. He also plays in British jazz quintet Polar Bear.
@greg, actually was writing at lunch time, between various meetings with students. I've also had Baboon Moon by Nils Petter Molvaer and Univrs by Alva Noto on repeat for the last 24 hours, fascinated with both; seems redundant to keep posting them. Just imagine they both appeared several more times above.
The Necks - Drive By - "Studio recording by the great rhythm minimalists. This is a steady moderate tempo piece with some beautiful floating chords and inspired drum passages. The usual masterful playing and restraint; forward movement and stasis. A classic band." RER Megacorp - 2003
The Necks: - "Are one of the great cult bands of Australia.
Chris Abrahams (piano), Tony Buck (drums), and Lloyd Swanton (bass) conjure a chemistry together that defies description in orthodox terms.
Featuring lengthy pieces which slowly unravel in the most mesmerising fashion, frequently underpinned by an insistent deep groove, the fifteen albums by The Necks stand up to re-listening time and time again.
The deceptive simplicity of their music throws forth new charms on each hearing. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, the music of The Necks is possibly unique in the world today."
- http://www.thenecks.com/bio.
Carrier Band - Automatic Inscription of Speech Melody - (Deep Listening 2000)
"The Carrier Band was formed in 1998 when Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch performed 3 improvisations at Alfred University and later released the Carrier CD on DL. The title piece 'Automatic Inscription of Speech Melody' is a trio improvisation by Carrier Band based on quotes written in the technical notebooks (1934-1949) of pioneering electronic instrument developer Harald Bode. The piece weaves words and phrases excerpted from the notebooks spoken and vocoded by Peer Bode through the Bode Vocoder. The vocoder transfers speech onto pitched sounds and the VOICE releases the CARRIER sounds. These texts, along with Pauline's electronic sounds created on her Difference Box were mixed with loops and excerpts of Harald Bode's demo tapes and synthesized sounds constructed by Deutsch. The LFO drone heard at the beginning was Pauline's entrance into the piece. 'Earth Orbit' is a quartet improvisation which Dick described as being 'the most fun he's ever had performing' loops and text from Harald Bode's notebooks were once again used along with data sets generated by Deutsch."
- Forced Exposure.
Yes GP, we're all beavering away. My problem with writing is that I need to move away from an academic/professional style - I want to put refeernces and citations! But after a couple of revisions I'm sure it will be alright.
Monroe's Pills - Rats In The Thorax - (Soundcloud - 2010)
"Monroes Pills are three young men (Misha, Sasha, and Zhenia) whove played together since late 2007. The briefest of accompanying texts then tells us that the band play an amazing style of instrumental and/or experimental music. The instruments are interwoven with electronic sounds in a really harmonious way."
- Left with that dearth of information, were forced - perhaps fortunately - to draw conclusions from the music itself."
- David MacFadyen http://monroespills.blogspot.com/ - Monroes Pills @ Emusers.
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Craig
This will be one of my first reviews for musicisgood
Noto is continuing to grow. Can't wait for the next Xerrox installment.
Craig
(The long arm of jonahpwll)
Venezuelan Waltzes by Antonio Lauro
I really liked this, contemporary big band From Wikipaedia
More big band, like the album above, from Fuzzy Moon Records
This might lead to some writing....
CD 2
The Necks - Drive By
- "Studio recording by the great rhythm minimalists. This is a steady moderate tempo piece with some beautiful floating chords and inspired drum passages. The usual masterful playing and restraint; forward movement and stasis. A classic band."
RER Megacorp - 2003
The Necks:
- "Are one of the great cult bands of Australia.
Chris Abrahams (piano), Tony Buck (drums), and Lloyd Swanton (bass) conjure a chemistry together that defies description in orthodox terms.
Featuring lengthy pieces which slowly unravel in the most mesmerising fashion, frequently underpinned by an insistent deep groove, the fifteen albums by The Necks stand up to re-listening time and time again.
The deceptive simplicity of their music throws forth new charms on each hearing. Not entirely avant-garde, nor minimalist, nor ambient, nor jazz, the music of The Necks is possibly unique in the world today."
- http://www.thenecks.com/bio.
Carrier Band - Automatic Inscription of Speech Melody - (Deep Listening 2000)
"The Carrier Band was formed in 1998 when Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch performed 3 improvisations at Alfred University and later released the Carrier CD on DL. The title piece 'Automatic Inscription of Speech Melody' is a trio improvisation by Carrier Band based on quotes written in the technical notebooks (1934-1949) of pioneering electronic instrument developer Harald Bode. The piece weaves words and phrases excerpted from the notebooks spoken and vocoded by Peer Bode through the Bode Vocoder. The vocoder transfers speech onto pitched sounds and the VOICE releases the CARRIER sounds. These texts, along with Pauline's electronic sounds created on her Difference Box were mixed with loops and excerpts of Harald Bode's demo tapes and synthesized sounds constructed by Deutsch. The LFO drone heard at the beginning was Pauline's entrance into the piece. 'Earth Orbit' is a quartet improvisation which Dick described as being 'the most fun he's ever had performing' loops and text from Harald Bode's notebooks were once again used along with data sets generated by Deutsch."
- Forced Exposure.
Grzech Piotrowski Quartet - "Archipelago"
Tito Carrillo - "Opening Statement"
-Another gem from the Origin label.
Monroe's Pills - Rats In The Thorax - (Soundcloud - 2010)
"Monroes Pills are three young men (Misha, Sasha, and Zhenia) whove played together since late 2007. The briefest of accompanying texts then tells us that the band play an amazing style of instrumental and/or experimental music. The instruments are interwoven with electronic sounds in a really harmonious way."
- Left with that dearth of information, were forced - perhaps fortunately - to draw conclusions from the music itself."
- David MacFadyen
http://monroespills.blogspot.com/ - Monroes Pills @ Emusers.