The records below include compilations, large and small bands, collaborations, solos, digital only, self releases & label releases. Not in chronological order.
Interpretations of Beauty Paul Dunmall Nonet Paul Dunmall - Soprano, Alto Saxohone, Clarinet, Alto Flute, Penny Whistle
Neil Metcalf - Flute
Trevor taylor - Marimba, vibraphone, percussion
Philip Gibbs - Guitar
Hannah Marshall - Cello
Sarah farmer - Violin
Theo May - Viola, Violin
Alison Blunt - Violin
John Edwards - Double bass
Alan Wilkinson (reeds), Lee Boyd Allatson (drum set), John Russell (guitar), Hannah Marshall (cello), Pascal Marzan (guitar) and the sounds of Dalston.
Music performance as a social document: This recording showcases the players' interactions not only with combinations of each other, but also with the ambient sound captured in real time from outside the venue. The recording’s post production became an investigation into the sonic transactions which resulted and are presented here.
“Art may be practiced in one way or another, so that it reinforces the ego in its likes and dislikes, or so that it opens that mind to the world outside, and outside inside…” John Cage credits released January 14, 2019
Released October 11, 2012
Cello and additions - Hannah Marshall Recorded by Hannah Marshall 2009 - 2012
Booklet text and images by Hannah Marshall Booklet design by Richard Sanderson
Hannah Marshall - Cello Satoko Fukuda - Violin Terry Day: Drums, Balloon, Recorders, Bamboo Reed, Flutes x 3 Recorded: London School of Sound Mixed and Mastered by AJ Pillette Terry Day Archives produced by Unpredictable Series
London, March 5th, 2016
Solo Cello performance at Iklectik Art Lab on the 29th May 2017. Recorded by Jeff Ardron.
Released by Hannah Marshall on Soundcloud
Dead Days Beyond Help IV Released October 22, 2018
String Parts performed by Hannah Marshall & Benedict Taylor All music written by Jem Doulton and Alex Ward (PRS). Engineered by Alex Ward. Produced by Dead Days Beyond Help.
Cover by Jem Doulton.
Composed/Conductor – Caroline Kraabel Last 1 (For Large Ensemble) Baritone Saxophone – Cath Roberts Bass Clarinet – Tom Ward (6) Cello – Hannah Marshall Clarinet – Alex Ward (5) Double Bass – Guillaume Viltard, Seth Bennett Flute – Neil Metcalfe Percussion – Mark Sanders Piano – Veryan Weston Tenor Saxophone Conductor [2nd Conductor] – Sue Lynch Trombone – Caroline Hall (4), David Jago (2) Trumpet – Roland Ramanan Vibraphone – Jackie Walduck Viola – Philipp Wachsmann Vocals [Pre-recorded Song Sung By] – Robert Wyatt
Discovery - Festival of Improvised Music 16 September 2017 Ye Olde Rose & Crown, Walthamstow, London, UK Barrel Play on Track 22
Recorded by Tim Fletcher Edited and designed by Paul G. Smyth Mastered by Spud at Guerrilla Sound Studios, Dublin, Ireland
South Kino by Dominic Lash and Hannah Marshall
spoonhunt 008
tracks 1 and 2 recorded Southville, Bristol, 19th February 2015 track 3 recorded Cafe Kino, Bristol, 16th July 2016
mixed and mastered by Dominic Lash credits released May 20, 2018
A selection of music from 'Wild Life' a visual theatre/puppetry production from The Ding Foundation.
Liverpool Sound and Vision: " **** perfect, sensuous clarity of performance.....A wonderful production!"
Credits: Album cover photo - Jess Niemz The Woman - Joanna Holden Puppeteers - Amelia Pimlott & Chloe Purcell Design & Making - Amelia Pimlott Collaboration - Angela de Castro Assistant Director - Miranda Porter Released November 16, 2017 Music composed, played and mixed by Hannah Marshall.
Released by Fundacja Słuchaj - Warsaw Poland - October 12, 2017
"DIALOGUES WITH STRINGS" Trevor Watts (Alto/sop saxes) Veryan Weston(Piano) Hannah Marshall (Cello) Alison Blunt (Violin) all compositions PRS/MCPS Recorded at Café Oto in London on April 23rd 2017 by James Dunn. Mixed and Mastered at ARC Studios, Hastings. UK. by Trevor Watts Photograph by Mark French. Cover Design: Małgorzata Lipińska Executive Producer: Maciej Karłowskilicenseall rights reserved
A film by Mark French shot over two nights at concerts at Café Oto in London featuring a quartet and a trio.
Released by Trevor Watts (on Hi4Head Recs) Hastings, UK
Apocolypse Jazz Unit - Crash Land - 3 Live performances - Released by Skronk March 7, 2018
SKRONK is a regular open mic event for improvising musicians, it takes place twice a month at New River Studios - London.
Recorded at Livingston Studio 1, London, UK, January 10th & 11th 2017 released by Alexander Hawkins Engineered by Benedic Lamdin. Mixed and mastered by Alex Bonney Design by John Chantler
Tracks 8-12: James Arben - flute, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, Dylan Bates - violin, Neil Charles - double bass, Stephen Davis - drums, percussion Otto Fischer - guitar, Alexander Hawkins - piano, conductor, Laura Jurd - trumpet Julie Kjaer - flute, alto flute, alto saxophone, bass clarinet, Nick Malcolm - trumpet, flugelhorn Hannah Marshall - ‘cello Percy Pursglove - trumpet, double bass Alex Ward - clarinet Matthew Wright - live electronics
In the 21st century, we’re starting to see how lessons from the many “factions” of free improvisation that have arisen over the last 50 years might be pooled into a larger musical practice, one that transcends—or at the very least bridges—idiosyncratic philosophies, scenes, and techniques. Dan Sorrells (The Free Jazz Collective) Released By Creative Sources 2016
www.fmr-records.comcredits released December 1, 2016
CHRIS CUNDY bass clarinet & contrabass clarinet FYFE DANGERFIELD piano MAT MARTIN guitar HANNAH MARSHALL cello DOMINIC LASH double bass MARK SANDERS drums and percussion Additional percussion on Following Hazel played by STUART WILDING
All music written and produced by Chris Cundy. Recorded and engineered by James Towler at Wincraft Studios, Gloucestershire UK on 2nd and 3rd June 2015. Additional recordings were made during July of 2015 at Nailsworth and Bristol. Mixed by Mike Cross and Chris Cundy. Mastered by Mike Cross. Cover artwork by Chris Cundy.
Released by Onze Heur Onze March 2016
Originally, Abhra – Sanskrit word for the atmosphere, the emptiness… - was commissioned by the Centre International des Musiques Nomades and the Festival Détours de Babel in 2014. Six improvisers (from France, Italy, Irlande and England), mix their own cultures and their common interest for sound & texts written by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau puts nature at the centre of his thoughts and work.
Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet – Paul Dunmall Acoustic Guitar – Phillip Gibbs Cello – Hannah Marshall Engineer – Simon Hall (3) Engineer – Matthew O'Malley Flute – Neil Metcalfe Producer – Trevor Taylor (2) Violin – Alison Blunt Recorded at Birmingham Conservatoire 1st July 2015
".... The result is a music that defies all categorisation. The dog’s bollocks. Nice package, literate sleeve-notes. Deep-listening rewarded, best in single doses" - ReR
Released by Emanem 5207
"...a deft and utterly mesmeric composition for five improvisers that deploys a combination of conventional music notation, verbal descriptions, harmonic-led improvisation and carefully inserted pockets of complete freedom to generate a multi-headed compositional structure." - Philip Clarke - The Guardian
"Although some organising principle must have been at work, it is never obvious or intrusive. So, as sub-groupings play together, the process sounds natural and unforced—a neat trick to have pulled off for a sextet's live debut. As with Glass Shelves and Floor, all the players should be commended with no-one being singled out for particular praise—this is a collective triumph" John Eyles
'Ian Smith's trumpet work, especially on "Old Suit," brought to mind a slightly more restrained version of Toshinori Kondo. Hannah Marshall's approach to cello shares the skittering deftness of players like Fred Lonberg-Holm. Meanwhile, Stephen Flinn's bag-of-tricks approach to percussion often eschews traditional drum sounds and invites guesswork about the sources of sounds.- Wyman Brantley' - The squids ear
Personnel: Alison Blunt: violin; Hannah Marshall: cello; Pernille Bevort: tenor saxophone and bass clarinet; Julie Kjer: alto saxophone, flute, bass flute; Signe Bisgaard: piano; Lisbeth Dier: percussion; Jon Anderson: additional cello (2, 6).Title: Akrostik | Year Released: 2014 | Record Label: Gateway Music
Veryan Weston - piano Ingrid Laubrock - soprano & tenor saxophones Hannah Marshall - cello concert recording made in Barcelona (Espai Cultural Caja Madrid) by Jordi Salvado - 2011 February 9
"All three players are charged, resolute, and bring a wealth of ideas and skill to the music, with the result a resoundingly superb album." PHIL ZAMPINO - THE SQUIDS EAR 2012
NYC based saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, London pianist Veryan Weston and cellist Hannah Marshall come together to mutate chamber music with fluent virtuosity. At once expansive and fleeting, the trio interweave and interject each other at a dizzying pace...
Ingrid Laubrock / saxophoneVeryan Weston / piano Hannah Marshall / cello
Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Thursday 9th October 2014 by Mark Jasper. Mixed by John Chantler. Mastered by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx, Berlin.
Gianni Mimmo _ soprano saxophone Hannah Matshall _ cello Nicola Guazzaloca _ piano recording _ 2010, October the 3rd, Air-Odeon Studio, Bruxelles engineering, mixing, mastering _ Michel W. Huon liner note _ John Russell photo _ Pat Lugo concept _ Gianni Mimmo graphics _ Nicola Guazzaloca production _ Gianni Mimmo for Amirani Records and Teriyaki Records
This is music that is built around paradoxes, of intimacy and distance, of natural evocations and cerebral concepts, of spontaneous lyricism without resorting to patterns, fragile and solid at the same time, sad and joyful. It is hard to grasp, and that makes you want to listen to it, again, one more time, again, as its title suggests.
Hannah Marshall _ cello Nicola Guazzaloca _ piano Gianni Mimmo _ soprano sax Leila Adu_ voice Live recording _2009, October the 30th St. Leonards's Shoreditch Church , London, UK. Liner note _ Dario Palermo Cover painting _ Toti Scialoja Production _ Gianni Mimmo for Amirani Records.
"...the place is the St.Leonard's Shoreditch Church of London, the occasion a performance acted in October 2009 by four musicians in a state of grace. The boundaries between classical, jazz, writing and improvisation fade to imperceptible, the definitions lose their meaning. There remains the absolute control of instruments that these musicians are clinging to, a confidence gained with years of practice and passion, a music that is a genuine expression of souls in continuous research" Vincenzo SantarcangeloA
Cyril Bondi: bass drum, objects | D’incise: laptop, objects | Hannah Marshall: cello recorded at Dampfzentrale, Bern, ch, 15.10.2010. Mastering by Christian Weber. online release by Compost & Height
A sequence of improvisations recorded in the warm natural acoustics of St Peter’s Whitstable. This quartet plays music created in the moment. From a starting point of contrasting histories, energies and aesthetics, they weave together, forming a tapestry of colours and dynamics.
"No one player is dominant, with the focus constantly shifting onto different members. Simply lovely." - John Eyles
Percussion – Tony Marsh Cello – Hannah Marshall Flute – Neil Metcalfe Violin – Alison Blunt Illustration [s] – Rina DonnersmarckMusic Photography By – Caroline Forbes Producer – Evan Parker, Martin Davidson Recorded By – Adam Skeaping
Barrel – Live At Artacts´12 Idyllic Noise – IDNO 0009
"Catch them live if you can, a performance earlier this year at Boat-Ting was, for me, one of the live highlights of 2013 so far, an awesome display of improvisation every bit matched by this fantastic album." - Ears for eyes
"The British trio Barrel has created a set that is revolutionary, funny and breathtakingly audacious" Raul de Gama Rose - All about Jazz
"This is improvised chamber music that remains focused and lucid even at its most intense. When in the 1950s Gunther Schuller bemoaned the fact that he couldn't find musicians able to improvise fluently in an atonal setting, he was thinking of performers like these."ART LANGE - POINT OF DEPARTURE 2007 Released by Emanem Digital studio recordings made in Pinewood, near Londonby Steve Lowe - 2007 March 13
" The instrumentation alone makes me want to hear this ensemble, in which Alex Hawkins (piano, Hammond organ) plays alongside Orphy Robinson on marimba; Otto Fischer, electric guitar; Hannah Marshall, cello; Dominic Lash, double bass; and Javier Carmona, drums and percussion" The Jazz Man - released by Babel Label April 9, 2012
Released by Emanem 2006
"Ill-health curtailed Day's activities in the 80s, which was a sad loss to a scene that badly needed colour and light to temper the (self-)seriousness of much British improv. Consequently, it was great to see him return to duties in 2006 with a set of briskly unidiomatic duos that major on his bamboo pipes-playing and on new and older improvising relationships. The sound is unique and lovely, and a warm welcome back to action."RICHARD COOK & BRIAN MORTON
Realeased by FMR 2009 with Alexander Hawkins - Piano Javier Carmona - Drums Orphy Robinson - Steel pans Dominic lash - Bass Hannah Marshall - 'Cello Otto Fischer - Guitar
Released by Red Note - Amsterdam Tony Buck-drums Mandy Drummond-viola, voice Ingrid Laubrock-saxophone Hannah Marshall-cello, voice Veryan Weston-piano, voice Luc Ex-acoustic bass
"The music is restless and inquisitive and moves between astringent lyricism and fractured high-voltage grooves, making few concessions to norms...rowdy, dangerous and beat-centric. In an atypical example of the retro-modern..." Chris May - All about Jazz
Released April 14, 2017 Ciao Ketchup Recordings Benjamin Etchells on vocals, Justine Cartier Watkins on bass and vocals, Joan C. Gadea on drums and vocals, Hannah Marshall on cello, Andy Tsao on violin and Kate Coggins on viola.
"With gothic themes and cinematic sounds ‘Three Mothers Part Two’ invites the listener into the bands own world, one created by layers of beautifully produced strings and baritone vocals reminiscent of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Leonard Cohen.New single ‘Suicide’ (out March 17th) takes this unique formula and merges it with a post-punk bass and driving, groove-laden rhythm that brings to mind the melancholy songwriting of Joy Division.The band expertly craft dark soundscapes full of shadowy concepts and lamenting lyrics encompassing influences not just from other musicians but from literature, film and art" - Flick of the Finger
Released February 6, 2015
"Influenced by artists such as Bjork and Pixies, The Vultures are a fine example of a band trying to push the limit as far as it can possibly go" Sophie Brannon - Contact Music
Benjamin Etchells on vocals, Justine Cartier Watkins on bass and vocals, Joan C. Gadea on drums and vocals, Hannah Marshall on cello, Andy Tsao on violin and Kate Coggins on viola.
Released May 12, 2014 by Copepod records
All music written by Dead Days Beyond Help (PRS) Alex Ward: guitar Jem Doulton: drums
Additional instruments: Viola on The Chain, Letters and The Last Thaw: Benedict Taylor Cello on The Chain, Letters and The Last Thaw: Hannah Marshall Clarinet, alto sax and keyboards on Letters: Alex Ward
Recorded and mixed by Alex Ward at Audio Underground and Stowaway Studios, November 2012-May 2013. Cover photos and design by Jem Doulton.
Released February 1, 2013 by Copepod Records
Dead Days Beyond Help is: Alex Ward: guitars, vocals, keyboards on 7 & 11, alto saxes on 4 Jem Doulton: drums, piano on 9 with special guests: Jess Hannar: violins on 1, 4, 7 & 11 Hannah Marshall: cellos on 1, 4, 7 & 11 Ian Smith: trumpets on 4
Released October 19, 2009 - Copepod Records
All pieces written by Alex Ward (PRS). Dead Days Beyond Help are - Alex Ward: guitars, keyboards, vocals Jem Doulton: drums Special guests on tracks 5 & 9 - Hannah Laurens: violins; Hannah Marshall: cellos.
Released October 10, 2008 by Traffic Island Discs
Soup is a band that existed between 2005-2008, playing pubs, clubs, theatres and park benches. In august 2008 we made this record in 3 days, just in time to launch it at the Vortex in London, before our beloved band-mate and great friend Jim Marcovitch died at the tender age of 34 of Non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
All of the sale proceeds go to Festival Of Jim https://www.festivalofjim.com/
Jim Marcovitch- Accordian/vocals, Hannah Marshall- Cello/vocals, Ben Glasstone- Guitar & Ukelele/vocals Recorded at Escapade Music Studio London Mastered at Skye Mastering Spoon photographs by Alex and Jim Marcovitch Band Photos by Tim Kane CD design by Helen Fuchs Thank you to Jenny Pidgeon Forever I think of you so very often dear Jim.
"The entire two discs are a powerful argument for the continuing appeal of large improvising ensembles and of free improvisation, here both thrilling and surprising in equal measures."JOHN EYLES - ALL ABOUT JAZZ 2008
The whole of the performance at the 2010 Freedom of the City festival by the 38-strong London Improvisors Orchestra. Conductions by Alison Blunt, Steve Beresford (featuring guest Leon Michener), Philipp Wachsmann, Caroline Kraabel, and Dave Tucker (featuring guest Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith), were interspersed with free improvisations.
Live at the Latest. With Kate Daisy Grant - vocals and multi instruments Nick Pynn - Vocals and instruments Ken Rose - Guitar and shaker Hannah Marshall - 'Cello and musical Saw Released: 3 Oct 2012℗ 2012 by Py nn/Grant/Rose
I played on this and other recordings of Kate's and spent years regularly accompanying her in performances. Kate Daisy Grant. Released: 4 Jul 2011℗ 2011 Telescopic Baby Ltd
'Kate Daisy Grant has a mesmerising voice and songs that seem like exotic birds. Go see her. She is very, very good.' Rich Hall, comedian/ musician
Tram - (Frequently Asked Questions 2001)
Tram was a British musical duo composed of Paul Anderson and Nick Avery. Pioneers in the Slowcore movement, Tram was recognized for lush instrumentation played at a very slow pace. Members:
Paul Anderson
Nick Avery
Collaborators:
Ida Akesson (piano, keyboards)
Fiona Brice (violin, piano)
John Frennet (bass)
Bill Lloyd (piano)
Hannah Marshall (cello)
Clive Painter (production, guitar, bass, harmonium, piano, clarinet, percussion)
Ian Painter (bass)
John Parish (production, slide guitar)
Martine Roberts (production, bass, vocals)
Ian Watson (trumpet)
I played on Track 3 - Fluffy (i want you). Polar Bear's second studio album originally released on Babel Label in 2005 and re-released by Leaf in 2014. The group's break-though album, with Observer Music Monthly placing the album at number 12 in its list of the "Top 100 Album of 2005"and Jazzwise listing the record at 100 in the article "100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World" shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005.
