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news | september… arround 3
London Improvisers Orchestra on friday the 3rd @ Cafe OTO, Workshop Series on monday the 13th @ Cafe OTO, Duet with Tom Challenger on thursday the 30th @Luna Lounge , |
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news | summertimeSATURDAY 28th August 2010 Steve Beresford piano / Roger Turner perc /Guillaume Viltard double bass 8.30pm | £5 | The Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8AZ —————————————————- SUNDAY 22nd August 2010
Maya Dunietz piano
18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL Times : 8pm Tickets : £5 adv. / £6
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SATURDAY 21st August 2010
living somewhere, playing somewhere, concerto for bass and friends
73A Saint Johns Road, N15 6QJ
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MONDAY 27th July 2010
Unturned Stone : Lionel Garcin (saxophones) / Charles Fichaux (drums) / Guillaume Viltard (double bass)
Cabrials ( Hérault, France) 9pm |
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news | Little LIO @ Ronnie Scott’s Jazz ClubTuesday 10th August 2010 9 pm ( doors 6 pm) Lol Coxhill - soprano saxophone Caroline Kraabel - baritone saxophone Ricardo Tejero - tenor saxophone Noel Shabaka Hutchins - Eb clarinet Harrison Smith - bass clarinet Sonia Paco-Rocchia - bassoon
Ian Smith - trumpet Roland Ramanan - trumpet Robert Jarvis - trombone Susanna Ferrar - violin Alison Blunt - violin Benedict Taylor - viola Hannah Marshall - cello Dave Tucker - conductor Roberto Sassi - electric guitar Rodrigo Montoya - tsugaru shamisen Terry Day - pipes, words, etc. Tania Chen - i-Phone, melodica, etc. Pat Thomas - electronics Steve Beresford - piano Guillaume Viltard - contrabass Tony Marsh - drums
47, Frith Street, Soho London, W1D 4HT Tel: +44 (0)20 7439 0747 |
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news | 2 gigs on the other side
116, quai de Jemmapes - Paris, 10°
details here —————————————————————————- Utopic Free Music – mardi 6 juillet 19h30 - Galerie Le Réverbère 38 rue burdeau, Lyon / Tél. 04 72 00 06 72 / Entrées 5/10/15 € Katsura Yamauchi (saxophones solo) ——– Sébastien Coste & Guillaume Viltard (sax soprano, baudruches, contrebasse) |
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news | sundays & mondays… juneSunday 6th This happens at The Vortex,
Sunday 27th - Trio with John Butcher & Eddie Prevost The Vortex,
and the workshop concert is on monday the 28th at Cafe OTO with: David O’Connor - saxophone Paul Abbott - electronics Kamura - voice |
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lire | about 3 bass solosGuillaume Viltard Running Away Un rêve Nu urn 001 Joe Williamson The Inhibitionist Jedso Records #2 Barre Phillips Portraits Kadima Collective Recordings KCR 025
Barre Phillips however is veteran explorer in this territory. An American who has been based in Running Away’s final tracks are more basic, because as they were recorded outside within Bouconne forest, the sounds heard besides Viltard’s measured stops, staccato abrasions and spiccato pops are aviary chirps, whistles and peeps. The bassist, who in other contexts has worked with saxophonist Heddy Boubaker and pianist Nusch Werchowska, takes the bird calls in stride, paralleling them with his own mid-range plucks, creaking tremolos and other sound extensions, but making no attempt at mirrored onomatopoeia. These same rubbed staccato lines and bouncing string sweeps are applied in more controlled studio circumstances earlier on. Powerful in execution, it often seems as if Viltard is physically digging into the sound currents with both hands, exposing whistling flutters, resonating slaps and wood-rending growls. Sweeping from sul pontiucello squeaks to slippery staccato strokes during the improvisations, his bass-string expression encompasses the fiction engendered from plucking tightly wound, very thick strings, as well as multiphonic soundboard thumps that result from the bow rubbing against taut strings. Williams, a peripatetic European traveler who has played with stylists as different as guitarist David Stackenäs and pianist Misha Mengelberg, has a similar command of his instrument on The Inhibitionist’s three extended solos. Most impressive is the title track which uses broken-octave scrapes and intermittent note clusters to create a distinctive narrative. Connective rather than solipsistic in his playing, Williams layers and positions different tones so that overall harmoniousness is revealed. These harmonies bypass mere tunefulness however. Using glissandi to move upwards to accelerated squeals and pummeling downwards for knife-edge scrapes, his strategy is more direct than aleatoric. Thumping the strings or tapping the instrument’s waist and belly, his note-placement is still descriptive enough so that the layered tones complete a musical thought. Elsewhere massed sul ponticello and basso rumbles evolve slowly enough to reveal bowed polyharmonic and polyrhythmic textures. At points producing a tone that resembles that of a bass clarinet, his moderato strokes and mirrored rebounds affiliate in such a way that the resulting tones seem as inevitable as breathes. Neither of these sessions may even have been conceived if not for then pioneering work of Phillips, who has played with everyone from saxophonist Evan Parker to violinist Malcolm Goldstein. In an avuncular mood during the six selections recorded at a Graz concert which makes up Portraits, Phillips alternates his bass playing with talking, describing his relationship with the bulky instrument and his history as an improviser. Down to business, he proceeds to improvise in such a way that often the four-string bass sound as if it has several more strings. At one point he strums guitar-like on the strings while creating secondary accompaniment with the same string-set. Phillips’ higher-pitched textures are often cross-popped as if he was playing a dulcimer, yet flow cleanly in the lowest range, resembling bass-guitar pops. At certain junctures in fact, it appears as if Phillips’ reverberating pedal point is not only creating mandolin-like twangs, but also staccato strokes and reverberations which could be defined as Scruggs’ picking. And all this is done matter-of-factly. Probably the high point of the disc is” Up and Out”. Here clicking and clanking string slaps are stretched with jagged timbres and spiccato extensions. Percussively thumping the bull fiddle’s wood, Phillips exposes strident fundamentals and their extensions, extending the lines further into polyrhythms. Finally he refracts patterns downwards to the bass lowest notes, crafting a highly tonal coda that could be an Appalachian ballad. Phillips’ earlier experiments helped change the face of the bass, and Viltard and Williamson are talented enough to help carry on this work. Ken Waxman on http://www.jazzword.com |
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voir | with Tony Marsh & Heddy Boubaker
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news | what’s up in May ?Saturday 1st May Quintet featuring Dario Bernal Villegas (MX) - percussion £5 donation
address: unit h, arena design centre, ashfield road, N4 1NY google maps map of location: http://bit.ly/9S3xtV Sunday 2nd of May
Wednesday 5th of May @ Cafe OTO 18-22 Ashwin St Dalston London E8 3DL 8pm Guillaume Viltard - double-bass solo + Paul Dunmall - bagpipes, woodwind and saxes Oren Marshall - acoustic/electric tuba Steve Noble - drums Satuday the 22nd of May - 10pm Jamie Coleman – trumpet Ross Lambert – guitar Guillaume Viltard - double-bass Chomley Boys Club, Boleyn Avenue 38, London N16 it is the building behind the Vortex. Check out www.parkroadpilot.org for further info Wednesday 26th of May Seijiro Murayama - percussions
other sets will be a trumpet solo by Jamie Coleman and may be a duo with mark wastell and jonny mchugh
at the chapel of Kings College London, 1 The Strand, Aldwych
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news | April NewsSunday april 4 :
INTERLACE in the Great Hall at Goldsmiths, New Cross - 7pm Heddy Boubaker - sax Steve Beresford - piano Heddy Boubaker - sax Grundik Kasyansky – electronics Jenny Allum - violin Jamie Coleman - trumpet Ute Kanngiesser - cello ————————————- Wednesday april 21 flimflam @ Ryan’s . 181 Stoke Heddy Boubaker - sax Tony Marsh - drums Guillaume Viltard - double-bass ————————————————– Thursday april 22 @ Cafe OTO Heddy Boubaker - sax Eddie Prevost - drums ——————————————- Monday april 26 - Workshop concert series @ Cafe OTO Tom Mills (vln) and Jerry Wigens |
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news | busy weekThursday March 25 : Luna Fringe March’s MIX3 event features: · the highly rated band ‘Aida Severo’: Chris Williams (alto saxophone) ‘An interesting blend, full of power, intensity and lyricism. Great band. Great music. Highly enjoyable.’ (FreeJazz BlogSpot) · Sharon Gal (voice), Noel Taylor (clarinets) & Guillaume Viltard (double bass) · Video Art from George Saxon in collaboration with Darryl Georgiou : ‘Pixel Errors 1, 2 & Luna Lounge £ 5.00/£4.00 concessions
Saturday march 27 Steve Beresford - piano Rodrigo Montoya - shamisen Will Connor - percussion Guillaume Viltard – double-bass the Chomley Boys Club, (or simply go to the Vortex and it is the building behind the Vortex) |
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