Paul Hession was born in Leeds in 1956. He took up drumming
at the age of 15 and since then has played and broadcast in
many European & Scandinavian countries as well as
Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, USA & Canada.
He has played with many of the major figures on the free
music scene (for example; Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey,
Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Sunny Murray, Marshall Allen, Frode Gjerstad,
Peter Kowald, Joe McPhee, Borah Bergman, Otomo Yoshihide
& his old friends Alan Wilkinson, Simon Fell, Mick
Beck & Hans-Peter Hiby). Collaborators from a different scene are Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher) and techno musician/dj Paul Woolford.
He is known to relish the interaction of collective music-making, but also responds to the challenge of solo performance.
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