Trio combining the exhilaratingly physical double bass of Guillaume Viltard, Seymour Wright's exploratory saxophony and Paul Abbott on drums joined by special guest saxophonist Sébastien Coste

GUILLAUME VILTARD / double bass

Born in 1975 in the North of Ivory Coast, Viltard grew up in the wild countryside with almost no music. Back in France, he played with many artists of the French underground improv scene, including dancers and poets as well as musicians.

After moving to London in late 2007, Viltard has worked with many of London’s best improvisers, forming strong associations with the circle of musicians centred on Eddie Prevost's experimental workshop, becoming a mainstay of the London Improvisers Orchestra, and playing in a great free jazz trio with Tony Marsh and Shabaka Hutchings that was sadly curtailed by Marsh's untimely death.

It is this eclectic appetite for collaboration across the whole spectrum of improvised music as well as his resolutely unamplified and powerfully physical playing that marks Viltard out as one of the most interesting musicians to emerge from London's fertile improvised and experimental scene in the last few years.

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Photo by Jacques Damez

SEYMOUR WRIGHT / saxophone

“Saxophonist Seymour Wright has emerged as the most important saxophonist of his generation. . . [He] shows a command of the saxophone which in contrast to most ‘non-idiomatic’ playing – cynically translated as ‘make your saxophone sound like anything other than a saxophone’ – has deep roots in a tradition of playing that goes back to Frankie Trumbauer, Coleman Hawkins and Willie Smith.” - Brian Morton

www.seymourwright.com

PAUL ABBOTT / drums

Paul Abbott has been a quietly innovative presence in London's improvised music scene for the last few years working with electronics and self-built instruments before more recently dedicating a good part of his energy to the radical potential of an unadorned drumset, notably as one third of lll人 with Seymour Wright and Daichi Yoshikawa - a trio that recaptures free jazz's original ability to simultaneously shock, confound and delight.

www.paulabbott.net



SÉBASTIEN COSTE / saxophones

Soprano sax player Sébastien Coste grew up in the local brass band of a small French village. Then he lost his way through improvisation, getting involved with circus, dance, theatre and many improv' meetings, playing with lots of musicians of the French scene (including Steve Lacy and Michel Doneda) but also with traditional musicians (classical Iranian musician Shadi Fathi or malian singer Mah Kouyaté N°1 ) as he does not know yet what music is. He is still looking for that thing with 'Edgar' (a powerful sax & drums duet with Will Guthrie), or in a crazy rock band (Rosette Trio) or again playing balloons in his solo work.