The Messy Anne Trio

Steve Beresford – Piano

Javier Carmona – Drums

Dave Tucker – Bass

Adam Bohman – Prepared strings and objects

Mark Browne – Saxophones

Jon Sandsworth – Guitar and trumpet

STEVE BERESFORD

Steve Beresford has played a variety

of instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano.

From early on in his career he was playing a wide variety of music, playing the Hammond organ in a soul music covers band, featuring on Trevor Wishart’s early work Journey Into Space (1973) and free improvising. In 1974, Beresford moved to London, where he played in Derek Bailey’s Company events and in the groups Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack, and the Three Pullovers with Nigel Coombes and Roger Smith. He was also a member with Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno of the Portsmouth Sinfonia.

Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn and Han Bennink. He has also worked with a number of popular musicians, including The Slits, Frank Chickens, Ted Milton and The Flying Lizards.

http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mberes.html

DAVE TUCKER

Perhaps best known for his work as a guitarist in The Fall between 1980-1, Dave Tucker is an experienced improviser, having worked regularly with improvising ensembles such as the London Improvisers' Orchestra & The School of Velocity with Evan Parker.

An edgy player with a sharp musical mind, Tucker mixes compelling rhythms, pointillism, atonality, electro-acoustic improvisation, and flexibility in playing techniques to explore new musical possibilities.

" the resourceful guitarist Tucker was as likely to slip in bluesy chord patterns, bottleneck effects or gallumphing Munsters-rhythms as the abstract, Derek Bailey-like approach to melody he also favours." --The Guardian

JAVIER CARMONA

Javier Carmona is a drummer and percussionist from Madrid, currently living in London. He started playing rock in several bands from Madrid turning to Jazz and Free Jazz playing with many musicians form the Spanish jazz scene. This was followed by intense activity on the Improvisation scene of London, playing with musicians as Ashley Wales, Dave Tucker, Tony Bevan, John Edwards, David Leahy, Roland Ramanan, John Russell, Ian Smith, Ricardo Tejero, Pat Thomas, Marcio Mattos and in others projects such as Akafree, Alexander Hawkins' Ensemble, Improbeat, Lanza!, Olie Brice's Quartet, Progression 5, Roroja, Sustainable Music, Duo with Tsukiko Amakawa among many others...

http://www.myspace.com/javiercarmona

ADAM BOHMAN

“As a free improviser Adam Bohman has pretty much everything required for the job. He wields an armory of sound making devices - a disassembled violin, springs, light bulbs, a barbecue grill, a wire record rack, a wooden box with wires stretched across - and creates a post-serial slipstream of variegated events, where more detail is pressed into a split second than ought to be allowed.” - The WIRE

MARK BROWNE

www.myspace.com/markvbrowne