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Recordings below include solos,
small and large groups,
compilations & collaborations
Released digitally, CD, Tape & LP.



2 drone & 2 field-recording recordings released feb 2022 on bandcamp



Talk



Talk is a composition & improvisation project
with Mark Sanders - Drums & John Edwards - Bass.

In 2018 we made some recordings which I released
with accompanying drawings on Bandcamp
in March 2021.

The focus of the compositions are on rhythm and melody, most of the parts are
interchangeable and can be played by any of us at any time.



Your Title Here



solos



Clouds was made for Takuroku - Cafe Oto's online label started during spring 2020. Clouds are recordings made in a friends spare room on half and full size cellos with re-tuned strings, not far from an open window on a quiet row of back gardens. In some of the gaps you will hear the chair creak, the rain fall, the children at a near by child-minders house. The slap and fall of strings, on fingers on wood.

In memory of Beth Hardisty. Rest In Peace.



This 20 minute track comprises a collage of both studio and field recordings using sounds of string and box instruments re-made and played by primary school children from discarded objects, recordings made between 2017-2019 in London, Berlin & the mountains of northern India and includes sounds of valley dogs, people practicing at open windows, children singing, railway works & solo cello pizz harmonics improvisations... (plus some other bits and pieces....)



"Tulse Hill" is a series of improvisations on a cello with the strings de-tuned to new, sometimes micro-tonal pitches. This makes different resonances and creates pleasing tone relationships.
There are only 4 main pitches to be used (apart from pitches over the bridge), so the improvisation element is about discovering and following the natural and evolving rhythms as they unfold.





Barrel





Alison Blunt - Violin/voice, Ivor Kallin - Viola/violin/voice & Hannah Marshall Cello/voice.

The group formed at The Freedom Of the City Festival 2007.
We have released 2 albums so far, both of live performances.
We have been described in many ways by people.
Here are some:

"The British trio Barrel has created a set that is revolutionary, funny and breathtakingly audacious. To the uninitiated, this trio of string virtuosos might sound like musical terrorists. However, it is much more than merely a group of shock artists. Genuine creativity and musical innovation is at the heart of the music on this album; as is extreme humour that takes its cue from Dadaism. In fact it is as if the trio has swallowed the great painter Salvador Dali whole and regurgitated him here with chilling accuracy, rendering his melted imagery with its own sense of musical liquefaction" Raul de Gama Rose

"Decades of instrumental practice along and against the tradition blended inside an intermutual jargon that takes something from the classic and the absurd in equal doses. Heterogeneous composites causing inflammatory euphoria." Massimo Ricci

" The sheer strangeness of it all is astonishing, it resembles a groaning wooden ship floundering against cellophane rocks in a choppy sea of sighing taut wires, officers bellowing wordless commands from the bridge, gusts of wind fluttering its tattered sails. 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 Blogspot

"Barrel sound unlike anything else. Flurries of notes and clunky bridge nudge noise flutter around gracefully drunken descends, three dowager duchesses sliding down the banister in a rain of ripped confetti." - Stewart Lee



Gratuitous Abuse was released by Emanem Label in 2011 from recordings of live performances from 2009-2010.



Barrel - Live at Artacts '12
was released by Idyllic Noise in 2013
The recording is of a single performance at the Austrian Festival of original and improvised music Artacts.





Barrel had the pleasure of taking part in radio 3's Late Junction collaboration session for 'Into the Forest' in 2018 we spent an amazing afternoon recording and hanging out with sound artist Lee Patterson and Poet Amy Cutler. Click on the image to access the programme.





HALFTONE
- a previous DISCUSSION ABOUT MAKING AN OBJECT



Halftone explore irreverent and collectively-driven realms of improvisation.

‘...an unsettling, absently beautiful post-classical music evoking wind in the trees, unresolved conversations and difficulties around corners’ – Misfit City.



Released November 6, 2020
Halftone is:
Caitlin Alais Callahan (double bass)
Tina Hitchens (flute)
Yvonna Magda (violin)
Hannah Marshall ('cello)
Recorded and mixed by Nick Earle in Bristol, January 2019
Album artwork by Hannah Marshall
Album design work by Matthew Grigg, with huge thanks
In memory of Keith Tippett, with love


check out other halftone recordings on bandcamp



Music with Veryan Weston...& others



Crossings is a rhythm and composition project led by Veryan Weston on key station. The music is complex and alive from the inside, structurally very intricate with many parts that suddenly come together and change as quickly. "..It is a stunningly effective study in time and contrast, mirrored in an even subtler fashion on the aptly titled “Kalimba Setting”. Who’s got the melody anyway, Weston’s “kalimba” or Marshall’s wonderful pizzicato? Maybe, it’s actually given to Sanders’ hi-hat, which we hear transforming, almost without awareness, from exquisite echo and foil to rhythmic pillar..." Marc Medwin - AUGUST 2020 | THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD



Released on Red Note records by Luc Ex who was the bass player in this band, Sol6 is a group initiated by UK pianist Veryan Weston and Luc Ex. It has an unusual instrumentation which leans towards chamber music, with a ‘punky’ energy and high spirited open improvisations .
Mandy Drummond - viola/voice
Hannah Marshall - cello/voice
Ingrid Laubrock -saxophone/voice
Tony Buck - drums/percussion
Veryan Weston -piano/voice
Luc Ex- ac. bass
"The music is restless and inquisitive and moves between astringent lyricism and fractured high-voltage grooves, making few concessions to norms" - Chris May



Tuning out is the recorded document of a very unusual and memorable tour of churches around the UK that still house original tracker action organs. These organs can be manipulated in real time performance to create amazing tonal clusters, microtonal shifts that sound like early electronic music. Jon Rose and I joined Veryan , by adding into the mix our own explorations of pitch using deliberately unusual resonance frequencies., and combining in sympathetic and re-tuned strings.

"If I may echo my old pal Samuel Beckett, this is the dog’s bollocks" - ReR Group



Veryan Weston - piano
Ingrid Laubrock - soprano & tenor saxophones
Hannah Marshall - cello
I started playing with both Ingrid Laubrock and Veryan in around 2008 to play and learn some pieces by Steve Lacy (which we ended up using in Sol5&6- see above). We soon found that playing free was also something special. This record is from a live recording in Horta Cordal festival in Barcelona by Jordi Salvado. "monumental in its cohesiveness and conviction...with the result a resoundingly superb album."
- Phil Zampino




check out Luc Ex here check out Veryan Weston here check out Mark Sanders here check out Ingrid Laubrock here check out Satoko Fukuda here check out Jon Rose here

This is a track from Cafe Oto - Otoroku Downloads, Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Thursday 9th October by Mark Jasper. Mixed by John Chantler. Mastered by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx, Berlin.



Satoko Fukuda - violin
Hannah Marshall - cello
Veryan Weston - piano
Digital studio recordings made in Pinewood, near London by Steve Lowe, in 2007.
"Sequenced as they are, the pieces almost sound like sheaf book of variations on a single hive-like theme, feeding one into the next while retaining individual identity....The communication is close and constant, sometimes leading to claustrophobic overlaps, but more often yielding a marvellous telegraphing of ideas with spatial considerations preserved intact.... What's most pleasingly confounding though is how often the three musicians precipitate each other's intentions under split second conditions" - Derek Taylor





Compilations



The compilations below include a large number and variety of groupings from different live and recorded occasions.





Duos



South Kino.
Dominic Lash - double bass
Hannah Marshall - cello

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
Released May 20, 2018



Terry Day - Bamboo Pipes
duos with: Rhodri Davies, Charlotte Hug, Hannah Marshall, Phil Minton & John Russell.

"I feel the bamboo pipes are suited to stringed and electronic instruments, therefore it was logical to play with Charlotte, Hannah and Rhodri. What was unknown for me was Charlotte’s vocalisations and Hannah’s passion, both of which took me by surprise and added another dimension to the performances. Equally, I didn’t realise how hard Rhodri plucked, struck and attacked the strings - but I do like the unknown and the surprise of improvisation. My reaction is to seek new sounds, texture and articulation on the pipes or otherwise"



...more trios



quartets, quintets, sextets



big groups, festivals



sessions/playing/collaboration in bands