Saturday 6 August 2016, 8pm
Following two sold-out performances with This Is Not This Heat earlier this year at Cafe Oto, guitarist Charles Bullen returns with a new improvising trio featuring multi instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan and drummer/percussionist Paul May.
Charles has shared his solo improvisations from earlier this year below. Thanks to Nosleep Nigel for mastering these - enjoy!
Charles Bullen was a member of timeless pre/post-everything trio This Heat. He grew up in Liverpool and after moving to London in the early 70’s he formed the improvising duo Dolphin Logic with Charles Hayward, which later, with the addition of “non-musician” Gareth Williams, became This Heat. After releasing two seminal albums the band split in 1982 and Bullen made an album the following year under the name Lifetones focusing on repetition and a more syncopated dub influenced sound. Between 2016-2019 Bullen and Hayward formed This Is Not This Heat which toured the UK, Europe, USA and Japan performing expanded versions of This Heat’s oeuvre to unfaltering critical acclaim. Bullen also reformed Lifetones in 2023 for a short run playing Café Oto, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, and for the Pinault Foundation, Paris.
Daniel O’Sullivan is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer whose work spans an eclectic range of genres, from chamber music to psychedelic rock. Renowned for his collaborations with avant-garde luminaries and his own groundbreaking projects, O’Sullivan’s artistry is characterized by its lush arrangements and emotional depth.
Paul May is a drummer and percussionist from London. Currently playing in psych-trance outfit Woven Entity, May has played in several mythical constellations within the London improvised music realm including Fourth Page (with Carolyn Hume and Pete Marsh), Ladywoodsman (with long-term ally Duke Garwood), Little Wet Horse (also featuring Garwood and Daniel Beban of Orchestra of Spheres) and Alexander Tucker’s Decomposed Orchestra.
