FRIDAY 17th October 2008
Times : Doors 8pm
Tickets : £9
A native North Carolinian Henry Flynt has spent much of his life in New York and is know as a musician, composer and philosopher.
Flynt studied classical violin in North Carolina in the 1950s surrounded by southern "ethnic" cultures of bluegrass, country and blues and then went on to study mathematics at Harvard, with a view to pursuing philosophy, while continuing his studies of New Music.
After hearing the wealth of traditional American folk music Flynt's musical world shifted "I just underwent a total conversion as a result of hearing that. And I immediately decided that the best musicians in the United States were at the bottom of the social ladder". (Interview with Flynt in the Wire Magazine October 2004).
For some 30 years the violinist/guitarist/wild man vocalist feverishly produced and documented a perplexingly large body of work in relative obscurity that until the 90's was to be largely unheard. His music varied from avant hillbilly blues, garage protest rock bands, improvised vocal music and Indian raga infused improvisations.
Flynt returned to live performance in 2008 after a twenty-five year absence.
In the last two years, his interests turned to “raga rock,” a hard-rock adaptation of the country selection “Lonesome Train Dreams” on his album Graduation. “Lonesome Train Dreams” featured a double lead of six-string and pedal steel over a riffing rhythm section.
The first of the new round of compositions is titled “Rockin’ Midnight,” and has been performed in Lisbon, Brooklyn, Baltimore, and Chicago. A rhythm section, this time pre-recorded, plays a riff which is always in C. Over the rhythm section, two six-string guitars provide a double lead in compare-and-contrast styles. In the four performances to date, Henry has been joined by his neice Elizabeth (Libby), who plays a Strat.
Flynt has updated his sound, using effects more aggressively than in his guitar work of the last century.
Tonight Flynt will play solo as “Henry Flynt.”
www.henryflynt.org
N.E.W (Steve Noble, John Edwards, Alex Ward)
‘A new improv trio from drummer Steve Noble, bassist John Edwards and guitarist Alex Ward, N.E.W. marries the unbridled instrumental creativity of free jazz with the chaos and abrasion of noise-rock. All three players exhibit an astonishing level of form, with a combined technical dexterity to be reckoned with. As noisy and clamorous as it gets, certain jazz traditions still shine through: the musicians take turns at offering one another the spotlight, resulting in some amazing soloing from all parties.’ – Boomkat
LOL COXHILL
Between 1947 and 1949 the teenage Lol Coxhill organised club sessions comprising live contemporary jazz plus recordings of modern jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Lennie Tristano, Miles Davis and Stan Kenton. This led to a lifetime dedicated to jazz playing with a vast range of musicians including Sonny G and the G Men, Joe Harriott, Tubby Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Martha & the Vandellas, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Mose Allison, Otis Spann, Champion Jack Dupree, Lowell Fulson, Alexis Korne, Kevin Ayers, David Bedford, Mike Oldfield , Trevor Watts 'Moire Music', The Spontaneous Music Ensemble, AMM, Melody Four (with Steve Beresford and Tony Coe), Adam Bohman and many more
Lol Coxhill has also worked occasionally in television and films with a part in Sally Potter's London story, Ken Campbell and Nigel Evans' The madness museum and Derek Jarman's Caravaggio.
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