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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe Oto |
|---|---|
| P | Friday 1st October, 2010 |
| N | 8:00pm |
THE AMES ROOM Jean-Luc Guionnet – alto sax (france) Will Guthrie – drums (australia) Clayton Thomas – bass (australia) MAXIMAL MINIMALIST TERROR JAZZ!
The three members of THE AMES ROOM are involved in a multitude of musical activities: free improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, jazz, installations, noise, rock, however all three share a passion for free jazz at it's most energetic and brutal heights. The music rests somewhere between Roscoe Mitchell's Noonah, Last Exit's tribal adventures, and Henry Threadgill's spider web like tapestries of sound. Between them the three members have worked/work with the likes of Peter Brötzmann, Jim Denley, Chris Abrahams, Axel Dorner, Paul Lovens, Burkhard Beins, Keith Rowe, Jerome Noetinger, Andy Moor, Tony Buck…
"A raging, unabashedly free jazz trio that works[…] Two non-stop live onslaughts of intense jazz-based improv that manages to avoid almost all the self-indulgence and gabbiness of the huge majority of such attempts in recent decades." Review the LP ‘IN’ by Brian Olewnick
http://virb.com/theamesroom/
http://theamesroom.wordpress.com/about/
Born in Lyon, France, in 1966, JEAN-LUC GUIONNET is an electroacoustic music improviser and composer. His main instrument is the saxophone but he also works with electronics, harmonium and church organs. He studied Aesthetics at La Sobornne, Paris, with Iannis Xenákis, Geneviève Clancy and Bernard Tesseydre and tape music at the conservatory of Bologne. Guionnet is concerned, among many other themes, with the propagation and distribution of forms, musical and others, in time and space as an experience of testing reality but also of redefining the body from the interaction with the purely physical environment. He has composed for theatre and contemporary dance as well as for experimental film. He is a member of the editorial board of the arts and philosophy magazine Terres des Signes.
www.jeanlucguionnet.eu
Australian drummer/percussionist WILL GUTHRIE uses amplified found and junk, microphones, electronics, drums and cymbals. He works in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation and studio composition. In Nantes, France, he is part of the collective CABLE# which also organises regular concerts and an annual festival. He also runs the experimental improvised CD label and mailorder service; ANTBOY MUSIC.
www.antboymusic.com
CLAYTON THOMAS thoughtful and virtuosic prepared double bass playing has taken Europe by storm since he moved to Berlin from Sydney in 2007 – part groove cannon, part kinetic sculpture, all parts BAD bass skills. He showcases all the possible positions of the instrument, ways of tickling, teasing, forcing, caressing, beating and shaking sounds out of the body of his double-bass The range of sounds is exceeding the preconception most audiences might have about the double bass by far.
www.myspace.com/doubleclayton
