Thursday, May 18 at 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
BBC Hall, 32 Alexandra Road, Swansea SA1 5DT
Ffordd Daniel Lewis Duo are a clarinet, some drums and some cymbals. Plus two humans.
Ffordd Daniel Lewis Duo sculpt thin air out of music.
Ffordd Daniel Lewis Duo are shadows on the cave wall. They are generative music ungenerating itself.
Ffordd Daniel Lewis Duo make it up as they go along. Whatever 'it’ is.
Ffordd Daniel Lewis Duo have played music before. They've been playing it for years. But not this music.
Ffordd Daniel Lewis Duo are the sound of two ships passing in the night. In the woods. When no-one is listening, but everyone can hear.
GHOST MIND
Ghost Mind consists of Jon Andriessen on guitar and effects, Pete Robson’s horns and Stuart Wilding on percussion. All this combined with a background of found sounds gathered from around the planet. Essentially, Ghost Mind is a four-person trio, the fourth member being the titular “Ghost”.
The concept of Ghost Mind was devised while the members were playing together with the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra. The idea was to carry on that experimental, improvised sound with an added backtrack - the Ghost - in a more compact trio replacing the Orchestra and creating a soundscape with a space difficult to create in a larger group.
Having formed in 2014, the band, based in Cheltenham and London, have played across the UK and recently returned from a tour of Germany where they also collaborated with Gottingen trio, Brainville Desperados.
Further collaborations with the likes of Rothko, Emi Watanabe, BeiBei Wang, Saltings and a long list of poets and performers has seen Ghost Mind establish themselves as a unique and completely indescribable force on tour.
In 2017 they collaborated with Johny Brown (Band of Holy Joy) and actor Tam Dean Burn, adding an hour long improvised soundscape to Browns adaptation of the Bill Drummond play, “Bill Drummond is Dead” live on the radio for Resonance FM.
“Magical!” Ernst Reijseger
'The thing about Ghost Mind is they don't just improvise with instruments toys and objects but through the sounds they process through the Ghost Mind machine it seems as if they are improvising with our very pasts, with our memories and dreams to conjure a beautiful and vital sometime orchestral sometime post hauntological but always inventive sound' Johny Brown, Band of Holy Joy
“Wonderful diffused Percussion sounds from another world… From the urban world to nature, into a bed of birdsong and back again… The band is obviously not afraid to sound experimental.” Göttingen Tageblatt
“Fantastic, inventive, dazzling, humorous and yet serious at turns.” Tony Broad, Impress Festival
PAUL HAZEL & DAVID PITT
Paul Hazel and David Pitt are two Swansea-based artists who share an interest in storytelling, the spoken word, and in the musical use of gongs and metallophones. They will be presenting two new pieces at NAWR#6 using live instruments and electronics amplified
through a quadraphonic sound system.
David Pitt is an artist, maker, and musician. An accomplished bass player and guitarist, David works as a storyteller and facilitator of creative activity workshops for children and adults that can include mask and puppet making, ephemeral sculpture, music, and words.
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Paul Hazel is a musician, composer, and record producer with many releases on the Rising High, Rotation, Inspiral, Instinct, 2Kool, and Masters At Work labels. He composed and produced the music for the short films Shore Leave and The Dirt Inside, the Canal+ documentary La Ñ En La Araña, and a theme for Channel 5 TV. He is a member of the Swansea Laptop Orchestra.
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