Luc Ex: ac.bass
Phil Minton: vocals
Mark Sanders: drums
Veryan Weston: piano
The music of 4WALLS is not very easy to define. The beauty and musical tension seem to be evoked out of the very logical combination of tightly rehearsed pieces and free improvisation. 4Walls create their own intriguing world of noises and melodies, and at the same time they very well manage to balance between the different dynamic musical possibilities. You may hear beautiful, more melancholic or dark chords against fast and humorous pieces. Very tiny minuscule sounds against enormous fragments of brutal noise and energy. This is what happens if you have noisy music and avant-garde jazz sitting around one table.
It’s also a band that combines two concepts – ‘ROOF’ and ‘WAYS’. The first had the late Tom Cora on Cello and still includes some of his fine compositions. Added, is Veryan Weston on piano who is half of the ‘WAYS’ duo with Phil Minton – a long term acclaimed collaboration which has yielded numerous compositional projects. 4Walls now has a repertoire of material that not only combines these various previous elements, but new material has been collaboratively conceived which is due for release on CD; their well-received performances at some of the recent major European Festivals means the band is a bit more than just a load of old bricks.
PHIL MINTON has lived in London most of his life where he has been among the guiding lights of one of the worlds most important community of improvisers. He has in the past worked with Peter Brotzman, Radu Malfati, Lol Coxhill and Roger Turner (among others) for recording and performing projects. He has been a frequent and recurrent presence at such international festivals as Vancouver, Taktlos, Ars Electronicaa, Linz, Angelica in Bologna, Moers and Musica Strasbourg, to name but a few. His composition with Veryan Weston SONGS FROM A PRISON DIARY , for 22 voices, won the Cornelius Cardew Composition Prize.
VERYAN WESTON:
Veryan has been playing improvised music since 1972 when he moved to London, and played regularly at the Little Theatre Club. He also worked on many different projects including music for film and other visual arts. Throughout the ‘80s and early ‘90s he worked primarily with the Eddie Prévost Quartet, Trevor Watts, Moiré Music and performed duets with Lol Coxhill and Phil Minton (as well as other ensemble projects with Minton). He has been played all over the world at different international jazz festivals.
LUC EX:
Luc is Dutch and based in Amsterdam where he has been one of the four main forces behind THE EX for almost 20 years. Starting originally in the “punk period” they evolved subsequently in many different directions working with a wide variety of international musicians such as Kurdish singer Brader and jazz musicians Ab Baars and Han Bennink, as well as Belgian comedians Kamargurka & Herr Seele. He is also one of the directors of the CD distribution and production company ‘Konkurrent Onafhankelijk Muziekbedrijf BV’.
MARK SANDERS:
Mark has played with many renowned musicians including Wadada Leo Smith, Derek Bailey, Henry Grimes, Roswell Rudd, Sylvie Courvoursier, Sirone, Peter Brotzmann, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Jah Wobble, Harold Budd, Bill Laswell, Phil Minton, Sidsel Endresen , Charles Gayle, Peter Evans and William Parker. With John Edwards, they work in a duo and with groups including Roscoe Mitchel, Evan Parker, Veryan Weston and John Tilbury.
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