Member Since: 9/30/2006
Band Website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Leigh
Band Members: At the moment 2 (thin) arms, 2 (long) legs, 1 pair of (large) lungs, & a couple of other dynamic duo bits & pieces, from which I manage to drag out the sounds of various flutes, soprano sax, zither, keyboards, percussion, vocals, electronics, & ethnic instruments /../../../../../../../.. CURRENT PROJECTS -- Henrico Reed & LuLa 1999 .. Ex-Wise Heads 1997 .. Black Sheep 2004 .. Mirage (Cathy Williams) 2005 .. Home Grown Radio Kwarkestra .. 2005 .. Occasional UK gigs with Faust. Enjoy impro sessions & loose collaborations /../../../../../.. RECENT PROJECTS ------ IEM (Steve Wilson) 2000 .. Syntron (Tom Zunk + Elke Postler) 2001-2 .. Men Working Overhead (Tom Zunk) 2002-05 .. Nana Tsiboe 2002-04 .. UK tour with Krautrockers Faust 2005 --/../../../../../../../../../.. Aliens@C has links to all of my current projects, reviews, political rants, pix, stories, art, blabla etc. Apart from numerous solo concerts, projects, & performances, I've played and/or recorded with -- John Martyn 1969 .. Kevin Ayers 1970 .. Mouseproof (Gerry Fitzgerald) 1970-71 .. Henry Cow 1972-73 .. Hatfield & The North 1972-74 .. Slapp Happy 1972-74 .. Robert Wyatt 1974 .. Mike Oldfield 1973 .. Uli Trepte (ex-Guru Guru) SpaceBox 1974 .. Radar Favourites (Cathy Williams, Charles Hayward, Gerry Fitzgerald, Charles Bullen, Jack Monck) 1974-75 .. Rag Doll (GL & Cathy) 1975-77 .. Red Balune (GL, Cathy + the multitude) 1977-79 .. Aksak Maboul 1978-79 .. Frank Wuyts 1978-88 .. Univers Zero 1978-79 .. Kontakt Mikrofoon Orkest 1980 .. Black Sheep 1981-82 (reformed 2004) .. The Head Masters (1982) .. Pierre Vassiliu (French singer/songwriter) 1980-82 .. Random Bob 1984-86 .. Sables (Pierre Jacobs) 1987-91 .. Arabesque (Hassan Erragi) 1989-90 .. Hamsy Boubaker 1987-90 .. Morton Fork Gang (Joe Higham, Guy Segers, Daniel Denis, Jan Kuijken) 1989-93 .. Switchcraft (Claude Jansens) 1988-89 .. John van Rymenant 1988-90 .. 9T2 1990 .. Bass Line Boys 1990 .. Peter Beyls 1990 .. Highly Irregulars (Jack Monck & Lahcen Lahbib) 1992-94 ---------- The Meta Physical Desert Years 1992-97 ----------
Influences: Briefly: Afro-American Jazz - Sun Ra, Don Cherry, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, etc. Euro-Jazz - Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, John Stevens, Han Bennink, Trevor Watts, etc. R & B - Graham Bond was a very big influence on me in my teens; with Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, & Dick Heckstall-Smith, they were the hottest fusion band around. Avant Rock = (early) Soft Machine, Zappa, Beefheart, Henry Cow, The Residents, This Heat, Faust, Gong (ok - more Space than Avant). Two of my favourite soprano players - Steve Lacy & Terry Riley. Other music - World, Contemporary, Ethnic, Electronic, Improvised. I'm still catching up on other recent musical developments, & I guess that must also influence me to some extent, even if unconsciously! Other: Performance Art in the sense that live music, dance, & theatre are performances. Painting, drawing, sculpting, writing & other "non-performing arts" can all be incorporated into this live framework.
Sounds Like: Unfortunately the MCCB Global website is lying dead in the deep waters off the coast of Outer Cyberia, but all the reviews are now on my Aliens@C blog, www.aliensatsea.blogspot.com. There’s a review in the New Musical Express from 1978 of Red Balune’s one & only single "Capitalist Kid / Spider In Love" - "Music of the revolution - sounds like Kraftwerk falling down a liftshaft with somebody else’s instruments"... I considered that a huge compliment at the time, & still do! So....that’s what part of all this mishmash sounds like anyway - but there are some nice tunes here as well though! Over to you, listeners.
Record Label: MCCB / Hard World / Ad Hoc (ReR USA)
Type of Label: Indie