jonmills@musician.org
Jon Mills currently plays banjo with the Old Lone Gin Band in the Dover area. Bands that he has previously played with include Rainmaker (bluegrass band), Travel by Steam (ceilidh band), Five Bar Gate (ceilidh band), Tony Joe Marshall & Crowbait (country music band), and the Marshall-Mills Duo. He is also recorded on albums of Cornish music with Merv Davey (Pyba, and Forth an Syns), and on an album with Cornish songwriter, Graham Sandercock (Pol Pri).

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.


These songs are live recordings of my piano playing and improvisation, over audio collage of various samples, loops and found sounds. I play a Yamaha P-95 stage piano, and everything else is being co-ordinated through Ableton Live and an APC20 controller. These pieces are intended as a kind of musical diary as I explore the possibilities of this approach, rather than as a set of perfectly polished finished works. If I had to describe the effect I am looking for here, I guess it might lie somewhere within a rough triangle between The Avalanches, Rip Rig + Panic and the Beastie Boys album "The In Sound from Way Out". Your comments are very welcome. Thanks for listening and hope you enjoy these adventures in sound.



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