Tagged: 2023

A quick collaboration

A chance meeting with my old friend Kev Nickells, who styles himself Hákarl, led to this swiftly done collaboration. Kev laid down a drone, then improvised over the top with his fretless guitar, then removed the drone and gave the recording to me. My brief was to make a new drone, which I did, and Kev liked it. And then it got played on Repeater Radio with similar collaborations Kev made with Greta Pistaceci and Drift of Signals. Very pleased with this, it’s the last part of the radio show, but you should listen to all of it.

More Muster

James and I have started to do some more Muster stuff. We went to the lovely OneCat studio in Crystal Palace and Jon Clayton made some recordings of us. We usually only play together at gigs as we live in different cities, so playing together is complicated. It felt less pressured than playing to people, and in many ways more enjoyable. Although playing to other people provides a useful framing to what we do, and keeps me focussed, its not always my favourite place to be.

The recordings sound great, and there will likely be a release of some kind in the future.

We’ve also got a couple of shows coming up. First, James is organising one at the Hundred Years Gallery in Hackney. Nine players will be playing in various combinations, all people James works with. Not strictly a Muster show, but a related incident.

The second is Avant Garden organised by Adam Brett, the gig is at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses in Brixton on 1st October. We get to play in a greenhouse!