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About Me

‘Peekaboo-bebop is the name of Mick Gawthorp's current musical project and draws upon an eclectic mix of musical styles and approaches. Peekaboo-bebop comprises a number of sonic assemblages produced at home in Southend-on-Sea by way of Apple-Mac G5 hardware, various software-packages including Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Adobe Audition, Garage (particularly the double-bass voicing!) and various musical instruments including tenor and soprano saxophones, M-Audio Keystation midi-keyboard, Alesis USB guitar interface and guitars.’Cut to the chase: this is a solo enterprise in which I play the various parts (other than percussion which is either loops or programmed).I have been playing - intermittently - for many years now, my first musical experiences formed with people who became far better known than myself as part of the Coventry Two Tone scene. I played on the original version of ‘Three Minute Hero’ by The Selecter and was also involved with Specials’ drummer Brad’s solo ‘All-Stars’ project. Indeed, more recently some of these alliances have been reformed by way of my participation in Kevin Harrison's Real Life project with former school-friend Neol Davies of The Selecter and Horace Panter of The Specials.The liberating potential offered by new digital recording technologies has also made it possible to work on each others’ material even though its producers may be geographically distant. Quite simply, it is possible for us to circulate and distribute ideas in order that we can collaborate!Generically, the music here might be classified in terms of being 'down-tempo', 'slow-burn', 'chill-out', 'lounge', 'trip-hop' (already something of an anachronism!), 'nu-jazz', 'electronica', ‘experimental’ etc etc.Peekaboo-bebop is what I have been doing at home over the past couple of years.No Big Macs on... Havana 2008 By Mick Gawthorp Book PreviewThere then... ... Photographs by By Mick Gawthorp Book Preview

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Member Since: 7/12/2007
Band Website: http://gingermick.vox.com/
Band Members: Mick Gawthorp
Influences: Henry Mancini, Delia Derbyshire, Peter Falk, John Cassavettes, Kevin Harrison, Neol Davies, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, David Stone-Martin, Don Martin, Charles Lloyd, Charlie Mingus,Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Neal Hefti, Sopwith Camel, The Three Monarchs, William Klein, Coventry, Caravan, Manfred Mann Chapter Three, Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Zappa and the Mothers, Isley Brothers, Mike Westbrook, Steely Dan, Hatfield and the North, Thelonious Monk, Archie Shepp, Groove Collective, Wayne Shorter, Gato Barbieri, Medeski-Martin-Wood, John Martyn, Tim Dawe, Ninja Records, Nostagia 77 (how have these young guys even got to know about some of the suff that its obvious they know about?),Irma Records, Irma Thomas, Les Baxter, Les Dawson, Sun Ra, Bernard Herrman, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Lee Morgan, Lee Marvin, Marvin Gaye, Donald Byrd, Roy Ayers, Kevin Ayers, Junior Walker, Walker Evans, Robert DeNiro, Frankie Howerd, Howie B, Buzzy Linhart, Nitin Sawney, Jazzanova, Gary Winogrand, Paul Citroen, William Burroughs, Art Pepper, Sid James, Fred Steiner, the composer of the Perry Mason theme and therefore maybe ‘influential’ in firing the first sparks of my interest in jazz. In fact, for a generation of TV kids who grew up on American crime shows, it’s likely that the first instalments of our musical capital were made then, only some years later learning that what these composers had – very cleverly – done was deliver a version in inverted commas: ‘jazz’, or ‘jazzy’. I remember too ‘The Defenders’, composed by Leonard Rosenmann that had this hot-phat-trumpet establishing (shot) the ‘sense of place’ that came with the pan across the city skyline. I still love TV theme tunes. Give me the theme to Law & Order rather than the ‘theme’ to CSI. I get side-tracked often these days ...
Sounds Like: music from films - or sequences from films - that have yet to be made. Most of what you hear here is not bound by words or anchored by lyrics. In fact, in most cases the title comes last of all. Quite often, its a word-play or pun that only I will believe is funny or clever.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Stolen Moments: The Big Heist

Stolen Moments; The Big Heist'Stolen Moments' is the title of a track from Oliver Nelson's 1964 album The Blues and the Abstract Truth. I've appropriated the title here as not only is it one of the sa...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:58:00 GMT

The Good Flying Man

The Good Flying Man takes it's title from the three samples I've used in this piece. Firstly, there's Muddy Waters' 'I'm a Man', then there's Ahmad Jamal's 'Feeling Good' and then there's 'Flying Colo...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:11:00 GMT

No Big Macs on the Malecon


Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:19:00 GMT

No Big Macs on the Malecon


Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:20:00 GMT

Ventura (extract)

A new tune, like most others I'm working on at the moment, I'm struggling to finish. Well, more like come up with an ending. Whatever, the image is one included in the previously mentioned book 'There...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:11:00 GMT

There then, here now: a book of photographs

There then, he... Some photographic ... By Mick Gawthorp ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:41:00 GMT

west 27th

The title is nothing more than a reference to a part of New York that I’ve been lucky enough to stay in a few times. It’s also the title of a photograph I’m working on and which is i...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:44:00 GMT

Goin Places

A new toon, made by way of Ableton 7, a program I’m still trying to get to grips with but which offers spectacular outcomes (more so I would think if you understood more of it than I do!). Whate...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:08:00 GMT

Im the only one here...

Well, I’m the only one here &One of those projects initiated more by way of a rush of blood to the head than anything else, the central motif here is a sample from a Henry Mancini cover of Herbi...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:44:00 GMT

the cult of personality in the digital-age

The cult of personality that has for so long been part of the star-stroking machinery behind the popular song (or many other types of song) continues to be given a run for its money in the digital-age...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:26:00 GMT