Endsongs is improvised music. It's the jazz philosophy which doesn't mean it sounds like traditional jazz music. The current incarnations of endsongs (named after much intellectual endeavour - endsongs2) is one gentleman playing an electric guitar, with many electrical devices and a MacBook with Ableton Live and another gentleman playing electrified percussion. The Endsongs Freejazz Duo is acoustic percussion and an amplified (with no effects) Gibson Archtop (from Mark's Guitar Collection).
Endsongs2 has moments where there is subtlety and, even, silence and other moments that cause the audience to wonder where the other four members playing sustained electric guitar are hiding and if they are standing infront of or behind the percussion ensemble and, also, where the orchestra pit is situated.
Endsongs2 music is not ambient, not jazz, not experimental, not avant-garde and not progressive. It is a mixture of these styles that, due to its improvised nature, is different with each performance.
The Endsongs Freejazz Duo is at the opposite end of the technology spectrum. No effects. A guitar, an amplifier and acoustic drums. The Endsongs Freejazz Duo have been likened to a mixture of indian classical music, "traditional" free jazz and Bach.
Mr Bashford and Mr Macpherson, together, bring to endsongs the experience of over fifty-five years of playing live music.
Our music is very exciting for the performers and it can be for a listening audience. Some times it doesn't work and at other times I don't know where such sublime music comes from. I have no ownership over this music (other than legal and copyright, of course) and when I listen to recordings of performances I am hearing them as if for the first time.
Sometimes, during a performance of Endsongs2, myself and/or Mr Bashford may be not playing but are listening to the music, thus far created, unfold in unexpected ways. It is a new experience to be, simultaneously, performer and audience member.
It all started in the mid-1970's, well, really twenty years before that... Read more
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Shows
Interested in this type of music? Well, come and join the other 3 or 4 of us on the planet who also are... If you would like to book us for a performance then please use the Contact link in the sidebar.
Endsongs2 Ambient Live 08 February 2007 |
