Loop Ellington was born underground, while sat on a tube train, listening to Duke Ellington mp3’s. His big band were dropping sleazy brass riffs inducing life from the old chugging train. The screeching breaks and hissing doors defined a moment. A cultural memory resonated from the trans-continental express trains that Ellington’s band rode, to the cut up electronic laptop sound of today’s musical innovators.
Loop Ellington are based around 2 laptops, trumpet and a table full of electronics to produce an evolving pattern of sound and loops, always re-inventing itself. Their sound is improvised, never prearranged; every performance being based around the space and the audience which makes each performance unique. They are inspired by the Dukes ability to mess with the head as well as the feet, having crossed through experimental jazz clubs to the dance floor.
