Rebecca Sneddon - Saxophones
Matthew Grigg - Guitar/Amplifier
Joseph Kelly - Double Bass
Robin Foster - Drums/etc

Yoke - 'Yon'

Excerpt from the second side of 'Vi Är Alla Guds Slavar'.

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Vi Är Alla Guds Slavar is the latest missive from the long-running duo pairing of Mats Gustafsson (The Thing, Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, etc) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, Chelsea Light Moving, Dream/Aktion Unit, etc).

Thurston had first come across Mats' playing on a duo disc with Barry Guy and had assumed he was one of those older beardy European improv guys - Remember this was before the internet and everyone knew everything. Their first actual meeting goes back to the early 90s at Blue Tower Records in Stockholm (now Andra Jazz - arguably the greatest jazz record store in the world) on one of Thurston's frequent soundcheck-skipping discaholic binges. The young guy behind the counter was blowing his mind with side after side of crazy rare jazz, test pressings, acetates and more. Running late, he offered Thurston a lift to the gig and en route asked if there was any particular records he was looking for. "There is this sax player - Mats Gustafsson - I'm looking for some of his stuff"

"That's me" says the young guy - and there started an intense friendship that has manifested intself in music through their discaholics anonymous trio (with Jim O'Rourke), Gustafsson's large scale HIDROS 3 composition for Sonic Youth and much more besides…

The recordings presented here are continuous excerpts taken from the heavyweight, high volume duo sets that topped off each night of their two day residency at Cafe OTO in September 2012. Mats mostly plays a selection of amplified table-top electronics as well as some knotty soprano saxophone at the beginning of the second side whilst Thurston offers a fine example of the kind of liminal intensity he is capable of generating from his guitar complete with the low frequency/octave doubling dive-bombs that have had us replace the speakers in our fender twin twice since he relocated to London last year.

The title 'Vi Är Alla Guds Slavar' translates as 'We Are All Slaves Under God' and is taken from the painting by Edward Jarvis that also serves as the three colour screenprint for the LP sleeve. Printing by Patrick Wells at Heavyrock on archival quality card stock. Mixed by Robert Harder. Mastered by Andreas 'LUPO' Lubich @ Calyx. Pressed on high quality 180g vinyl at Record Industry in The Netherlands. First pressing of 1000. Also available as a digital download in MP3, FLAC and AAC formats.

"Mats is the most modern of players where the genre tags of jazz, noise, experimental, avant-whatever are finally transcended to a new millennium – where compositional concepts are at once in check with open improvisation and a super-postmodernism becomes what we always wanted: rock & roll!" -Thurston Moore

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Avec Pascal Battus et D'incise

Playing around in the rehearsal space, using guitar, a few effects (rat distortion, wah, memory man w/ hazarai) and some objects (slide, chopsticks, tin lid, spunge, knife, small metal plates).

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Audio One is:
Jason Adasiewicz: Vibraphone
Jeb Bishop: Trombone
Josh Berman: Cornet
Tim Daisy: Drums
Nick Macri: Acoustic & electric bass
Nick Mazzarella: Alto saxophone
Jen Paulson: Viola
Dave Rempis: Saxophones
Ken Vandermark: Reeds
Mars Williams: Reeds
credits
released 15 May 2014
Recorded and mixed by Dave Zuchowski.
Performed by Audio One at the Green Mill, Chicago, on February 1, 2014.
Mastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service.
Produced by Ken Vandermark for Audiographic Records.

Album design and cover photograph by Federico Peñalva.

Thanks to the musicians; to Dave Zuchowski for work above and beyond, and Wendy V.; to Dave Jemilo, Chris Anderson, and the staff of the Green Mill; to Matt Doenges for helping to instigate the idea; to Steve Marquette for his ongoing assistance; to Kate Dumbleton for trying to help me find a way to continue; and to all the listeners.

Special thanks to Sheila Major for her belief in this project and her generous support. 

Audio One : Atlas Of Madness

Audio One is:
Jason Adasiewicz: Vibraphone
Jeb Bishop: Trombone
Josh Berman: Cornet
Tim Daisy: Drums
Nick Macri: Acoustic & electric bass
Nick Mazzarella: Alto saxophone
Jen Paulson: Viola
Dave Rempis: Saxophones
Ken Vandermark: Reeds
Mars Williams: Reeds
credits
released 15 May 2014
Recorded and mixed by Dave Zuchowski.
Performed by Audio One at the Green Mill, Chicago, on January 31st and February 1, 2014.
Mastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service.
Produced by Ken Vandermark for Audiographic Records.

Album design and cover photograph by Federico Peñalva.

Thanks to the musicians; to Dave Zuchowski for work above and beyond, and Wendy V.; to Dave Jemilo, Chris Anderson, and the staff of the Green Mill; to Matt Doenges for helping to instigate the idea; to Steve Marquette for his ongoing assistance; to Kate Dumbleton for trying to help me find a way to continue; and to all the listeners.

Special thanks to Sheila Major for her belief in this project and her generous support. 

Audio One : Theme De Yoyo

Debut solo set, live at the Sound Cupboard, Crofters Rights, Bristol, 28/02/18. Live saxophone improvisation and precomposed electronics.
Recorded by Thomas Bryan of Jutebox Studios.

Solo set live at the Sound Cupboard 28/02/18

Hervé Perez (alto sax)and Helen Papaioannou (baritone sax) 

An extract from our live improvisation in the University Arms, Sheffield.
25 Feb 2019

HP & HP: improv extract

http://matthewgrigg.wordpress.com

Guitar, amplifier & live electronics - dealing predominantly with improvised musics, including noise, free improvisation & free jazz. 

Yoke - 'Yon'

Matthew Grigg

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