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Jez Nelson presents a concert by Richard Barrett and fORCH, recorded at the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Based on the electro-acoustic duo of Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer, the ensemble also features two vocalists and four instrumentalists who specialize in improvised and experimental music, including John Butcher, Phil Minton and Rhodri Davies.

fORCH combines completely free improvisation with composed frameworks, by Richard Barrett, within which the ensemble is able to improvise freely.

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Extract from 'fOKT' by Richard Barrett's fORCH (details below)

Julian Siegel Trio recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 17 November 2009 during the London Jazz Festival

Line up:
Julian Siegel - saxophone
Joey Baron - drums
Greg Cohen - bass

Set list:
Night At The Opera (Julian Siegel)
Seven Days (Julian Siegel)
Incantation 1 (Julian Siegel)
One Mint Julep (Rudi Toombs)

An extensive interview with Joey Baron is now on the All About Jazz website here - http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34813

Forthcoming UK tours:

Jan Garbarek group featuring Trilok Gurtu
Jan 26 @ The Sage Gateshead
Jan 28 @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as part of the Celtic Connections Festival
Jan 29 @ Town Hall, Birmingham
Jan 31 @ Barbican, London

Led Bib
Jan 22 @ Orange Street Music Club, Canterbury
Jan 27 @ The Rainbow, Digbeth
Feb 5 @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Feb 12 @ Croydon Clocktower
Feb 21 @ Buxton Opera House

Extract from improvising electronics duo FURT recorded at the Freedom of the City Festival in 2006

Line-up:
Richard Barrett - electronics
Paul Obermayer - electronics

Track title: Omnivm

Musician, composer and senior lecturer in music at the University of Westminster Steve Beresford joins Jez in the studio to introduce Richard Barrett.

Richard Barrett's fORCH recorded at Bates Mill on Saturday 28 November 2009 as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Line up:
Phil Minton - voice
Ute Wassermann - voice
Richard Barrett - electronics
Paul Obermayer - electronics
Anna la Berge - flute/electronics
John Butcher - saxophones
Aleksander Kolkowski - viola/musical saw
Rhodri Davies - harp

Track title: fOKT

To hear more music from Richard Barrett recorded during the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival go to the Hear & Now website www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow

Recommended further listening:
Artist: John Butcher
Album title: Somethingtobesaid
Label: Weight of Wax
Released: 2009
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/Wax.html

Steve Beresford talks to Jez about the influence of classical composer Anton Webern on guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer John Stevens.

Musical examples used in the discussion:

Composer: Anton Webern
Extract from Quartet for Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Violin and Piano Op.22
Performed by: Ensemble InterContemporain
Album title: Webern: Songs & Choruses
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Released: 1995

Artist: Spontaneous Music Ensemble (Kenny Wheeler - trumpet, Evan Parker - saxophone, Derek Bailey - electric guitar, Dave Holland - bass, John Stevens - drums)
Extract from the improvisation titled 'Karyobin'
Album tile: Karyobin
Label: Chronoscope
Released: 1968

Composer: Anton Webern
Extract from Variations for Piano Op.27
Performed by: Peter Hill
Album title: Schoenberg, Berg, Webern: Piano Music
Label: Naxos
Released: 1999

Artist: Derek Bailey - solo guitar
Extract from the solo improvisation 'Lot 74'
Album title: Lot 74
Label: Incus
Released: 1974.

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