Gender
Male
Location
Hampshire
About me:
Began music in 1964 playing Rhythm & Blues then Chicago Blues with the late Paul Kossoff then avant Garde improvised jazz playing with Evan Parker Derek Bailey in Frank Perry Trio and in Derek Bailey groups then co-founded Ovary Lodge with Keith Tippett 1972 and Balance with Ian Brighton 1972 then stopped to develop my own meditation music in 1974 Got my first singing bowl in 1971 and first gong in 1968 I now have a large collection. I have appeared on 100 albums and given hundreds of workshops and solo concerts. I am considerd a pioneer of this music as I began in 1968 and played in a manner similar to today but in very early 1970s before anyone else in the musical field played this way.
As a band we are:
Me
Instruments:
Tibetan Singing Bowls, bells, Ting-shags, Gongs, invented instruments, Voice - overtone/undertone, overtone flute, Chinese flutes
Influences:
Rain wind fire space rocks Harry Partch Tibetan Tantric chanting Mongolian overtone singing David Hykes John Coltrane Albert Ayler Spontaneous Music Ensemble Derek Bailey Ancient Chinese/Japanese music North Indian classical music Dane Rudhyar Alan Hovhaness Giacinto Scelsi Salvatori Sciarrino Nada Yoga Agni Yoga Bhakti Yoga Jnana Yoga Karma Yoga LaMonte Young Pandit Pran Nath Pannalal Ghosh Music for Zen Meditation
