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Dominic Lash

austere Twentieth Century structural improv

About Me

Dominic Lash plays contrabass, electric bass and very occasionally other things as well. He performs with a variety of stable and more ad hoc groupings in Oxford and London, as well as playing a major role in the administration of Oxford Improvisers, Oxford’s free improvisation and experimental music collective.


The musicians he works with regularly include Tony Bevan, Taylor Ho Bynum, Javier Carmona, Chris Cundy, Fyfe Dangerfield, Angharad Davies, Harry Dawes, Ben Drew, Phil Durrant, Harris Eisenstadt, Patrick Farmer, Otto Fischer, Yedo Gibson, Bruno Guastalla, Alexander Hawkins, Geoff Hawkins, Kieran Hebden, Stuart Henderson, Tim Hill, Sandy Kindness, Paul May, Tony Marsh, Hannah Marshall, Pete McPhail, Steve Noble, Simon Prince, Samantha Rebello, Steve Reid, Joe Rigby, Mark Sanders, Ian Smith, David Stent, Pat Thomas, Dave Tucker, Philipp Wachsmann, Alex Ward, Mark Wastell, Veryan Weston, and Joe Williamson.
A list of previous gigs can be found here .
Recordings
In 2006 I released a duo CD with cellist Bruno Guastalla entitled Grazing on their own label, Petite Industrie Ephemere.’ See here for reviews, and send me a message to get your copy!
The Convergence Quartet’s first CD, Live in Oxford , is now available on FMR.
Barkingside’s debut was released in January 2008 on Emanem. Full details here .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/28/2006
Band Website: dominiclash.co.uk
Band Members: domlashAThotmail.com
Influences:

Double bass: Paul Chambers, Greg Cohen, Werner Dafeldecker, Mark Dresser, John Edwards, Simon H. Fell, Jimmy Garrison, Barry Guy, Charlie Haden, Peter Kowald, Joelle Leandre, Charles Mingus, William Parker, Barre Phillips, Matthew Sperry, Mark Wastell

General: AMM, JS Bach, Derek Bailey, Richard Barrett, Burkhard Beins, Bjork, Peter Brotzmann, John Butcher, Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Hariprasad Chaurasia, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, John Coltrane, Rhodri Davies, Axel Dorner, Phil Durrant, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Gastr del Sol, Gagaku, Mats Gustafsson, Franz Hautzinger, King Crimson, Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Radu Malfatti, Toshimaru Nakamura, Napalm Death, Ram Narayan, Phil Niblock, Luigi Nono, Tony Oxley, Charlie Parker, Evan Parker, Charlie Patton, Polwechsel, Prince, Public Enemy, Steve Reich, Keith Rowe, Stockhausen, Cecil Taylor, Edgard Varese, Scott Walker, Chris Watson, Anton Webern, Iannis Xenakis, John Zorn
Record Label: Bead; Emanem; FMR; Petite Industrie Ephemere
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Barkingside CD released January 21st

A little bit of self-promo: I'm very excited to say that the debut CD by the quartet Barkingside (myself with Alexander Hawkins, Paul May and Alex Ward) is going to be released later this month on Ema...
Posted by Dominic Lash on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:31:00 PST

Upcoming Releases

Advance warning on two new upcoming CDs:Firstly, to be available very shortly indeed, the debut album by the Imaginary String Trio (Bruno Guastalla, cello & bandoneon; Dominic Lash, contrabass; Ph...
Posted by Dominic Lash on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:04:00 PST

New (Old) Tracks

The details of the tracks now up on my page are as follows:AYU is by Nostromo: Alexander Hawkins, piano; Dominic Lash, contrabass; Pete McPhail, alto sax; Roger Telford, drums. Recorded 9th August 200...
Posted by Dominic Lash on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:38:00 PST

bass solo

The new tracks on this page are three of the five pieces on 'bass solo', my new very homespun CDR of solo bass improvisations (with a little help from some clothespegs, pieces of card, yoghurt pots, a...
Posted by Dominic Lash on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:17:00 PST