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I’m finally making some headway on ideas for a new solo album (or whatever a collection of music that used to be called an album is now called). I’m still not sure whether it’s going to be all completely solo, have a few special guests, be all collaborative, or what, but at least some musical [...]

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I spent a lovely few hours today with David Stevens, a wonderful musician working mainly with abstract drones and soundscapes, often using bowed strips of metal to create the most amazing textures.
We met through Tuttle, and have been talking for a while about recording together, and today it finally happened, though not without an hour [...]

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Right, wireless is now working on Das Boot - will be back to full blogging speed before too long. But first, some news you really need to know
Hopefully you’re already planning on coming to the Lawson/Dodds/Wood launch gig next week at the Vortex in Dalston. If you’re not, there’s still time to postpone [...]

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Here’s my favourite of the little Lawson/Dodds/Wood videos so far. After doing the 18 minute long group chat that the last four vids were culled from, I did two 7-8 minute interviews, one each with Patrick and Roy, about what they did specifically on the project.
With a project as well defined as this, it [...]

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It’s back to me talking non-stop on this one, I’m afraid… actually, that’s not all true, Roy gets a look-in half-way, but there’s lots of me.
The next two are mini-featurettes on Roy and Patrick, so look out for those in the next few days. Til then, here’s #4

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Part 3 of the video-saga. Our lovely drummer, Roy Dodds gets a fair bit of airtime in this one, talking about his inspiration, about improv, about how he comes up with what he comes up with.
Today I’ve been editing the PDF that’ll come with the download version of the album - was hoping to have [...]

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And here’s part II - if part I felt like I was taking over, that was at least partly because the other two were just unsure of the format, really (it is a bit odd, filming yourself with a phone for uploading to the web, I guess!) - but by this part, they’ve started to [...]

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The download release/CD preorder for the Lawson/Dodds/Wood album ‘Numbers’ is only a day or so away from happening, so last Thursday the three of us got together to record some videos - (gawd bless the Nokia N95!) - talking about the making of the album.
The first of them was an 18 minute chat about the [...]

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I’ve finally heard the proper mixed ‘n’ mastered version of the Lawson/Dodds/Wood album. It sounds amazing - Patrick has done an incredible job both of the editing and mixing mastering.
In case you missed it, Lawson/Dodds/Wood is a trio that came out of my Recycle Collective project (which is currently on a temporary hiatus). I’d played [...]

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About two weeks ago, I got an email from electronic drum-monkey extraordinaire, Andrew Booker, asking me to do a gig with his improv collective Improvizone, at the design museum. This appealed on a few different levels - firstly, Andrew’s a fantastic musician and top bloke. Note that the first time I saw Andrew live, I [...]

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