Corey Mwamba

Music:

Member Since: 11/22/2005
Band Website: coreymwamba.co.uk
Band Members: Head over to my shop if you want CDs of these Popular Delusions
it's me, using vibraphone, mbira, a bit of dulcimer [I think], beak flute, the Yamaha PSR-280 and my own voice; then subjecting these to on-the-fly audio processing and looping.

Argentum
a quintet that has so far involved

Robert Mitchell: piano
Deborah Jordan: voice
Robin Mullarkey, Michael Mondesir, Steve Lawson: bass guitar
Cheryl Alleyne, Josh Blackmore, Shaney Forbes: drums

Sipping Rioja At Home

Me - vibraphone, dulcimer, beak flute, ocarina, bloopy/squashy sounds, drum kit samples, guitar samples, Yamaha PSR-280, Indian hand bell, round vase, Pilates exercise ball, wine bottles, lap-and-work-top, voice

Nature - Aurora Borealis VLF activity [recorded by magnetometer], bird sounds, breeze, people

Campo Viejo, Monte Cielo, Faustino VIII, Carinena, Navarra, Valencia, Altivo, rooiboos tea - production values, creative input

Guest appearances from
Epson Stylus Color 300 on "Paperclip Origami"
Blackberry and nettle tea on "Joint Control Warfare"
Derbyshire Constabulary on "you just GET days like that [well, you just DO]"
Then there's the lovely people-like network of people that populate the Symbiosis Ensemble [some of whom did Nature's Glory, Fancy's Child , and all of whom are beautiful friends]:

...Bea Udeh, Kirstin Oliver, Mark Miller, John Morris, George Grignon, Lucy Smith, Shabaka Hutchings, Andy Maclean, Charlie Umney, Tracy Sutcliffe, Walt Shaw, Zigashane Ntalemwa, Kokumo, Janelle Xavier, Helen Martin, Laura Zobel, Caroline Eaton, Oli Matthews, Alan Jenkins, Ellen Omdal Milsom, Ling Peng, Nick Jones, Native, Josh Blackmore, Delano, Wayne Scott, Gary Morris, Cornelius Wright, Nigel Williamson, Adrian Blissett, Dave Anderson, Hammie, Mellow "Baku/Harmony" Astreivh, Jon Samworth, Alix Hoste, Kate Rounding, Paul Lawley... and on into the East/West Midlands rainforest of creatives...
And I have duos with Mr Walt Shaw , Mr Orphy Robinson , and Mr Robert Mitchell
And there's some other electroacoustic stuff too. Oh, and occasionally I drift into [and out of] other people's bands.
Influences: My main influences are few:

Orphy Robinson - the man who got me started, and has provided me with so much support and guidance Pat Thomas - another great musician who kept me carrying on when everyone else found me slightly... odd... Lewis Dyson - my first "teacher" who taught me love of music [and therefore] people Humphrey Lyttleton - my second "teacher" who taught me jazz through his radio show [but IT'S GONE. Good old BBC - shoving jazz to the graveyard] Thelonious Monk Eric Dolphy Wayne Shorter Andrew Hill Bela Bartok Lionel Hampton and I completely forgot to put down Hermeto Pascoal and Dmitri Shostakovich. Because I'm an idiot the friends and family with whom I talk endless amounts of sense and nonsense Books. Let us not forget books. Lots of them. In different sizes and thicknesses. Lovely, lovely books. I love libraries with a passion that borders on the fanatic [is the British public allowed to use that word now? Not sure if Tony's banned that one]