![]() ![]() Every moment, from asking for a Barbie for his birthday and receiving Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to legally discarding the surname of the father who walked out on him, brings Michael vibrantly to life on the page, giving readers a protagonist to cry with and cheer for. His story, told in verse form, allows readers to watch him grow and to experience each of the triumphs and tragedies that help him define himself on his own terms. Michael, a British boy of Greek Cypriot and Jamaican descent, feels caught between worlds: Black and White, masculine and feminine, straight and gay. In his latest work, Atta flawlessly captures the pain, rage, and resilience of a boy growing to manhood while feeling like an outsider in his own life. Mike Cooper/ Bangkok / March 18 2023.Courage and fierceness abound in this lyrical coming-of-age story about a young boy finding his way. The rhythmic and tonal variations set up an interesting shingling effect with the voices tumbling over one another.Ĭollaboration, improvisation, innovation was the theme, Sun Ra socks and a Bflat hat was the key. Most of the members were from Africa and shared no common African language. The text is each member counting from one to 26 in their own language each one starting to count after the neighbour had reached the number eight. Lastly The Migrant School of Bodies Choir was the result of a workshop in Milan for a performance/dance piece organised by choreographer/dancer Ariella Vidach. Then we started Trystero System which became a floating membership duo spanning several years and has included both Viv Corringham and Pat Thomas with myself and continues from time to time. Together we had Beating Time with Paul Burwell on drums and Gary Jones on bass, both sadly gone now and Mayhem Quartet with Pat Thomas on keys and Neil Palmer our improvising dj both happily still with us. We go back to my 1980’s in Reading in the UK. Viv Corringham has shared her voice on many past musical roads with me from Greek Rembetronika to an improvising trio with Lol Coxhill and Soundwalks in hills around Hong Kong. Michael Thieke, a fellow part time Roman part time Berliner member of the International Nothing (great name) brings peace on the clarinet with breathy playing on this most beautiful of wind instruments. ![]() Check out his own solo and other projects. I am always seeking audacious players of both those instruments and Scot is a true star. We have never met in the real(?) world, only on line. Scot Ray, slidationist lap steel and pedal steel guitar visionary. ![]() We also have a duo collection together on my Bandcamp site. Jon Raskin, a founder member of The Rova saxophone quartet based in California surprised me one night in London by appearing in the audience at a folk club concert I gave. We have a duo digital collection on my Bandcamp site and here on Black Flamingo Elliott plays bass clarinet. We first played together in Rome many years ago. His son Aaron Hawkins who I have known since he was born, is now a prominent figure on the Bristol music scene in the UK joins us on tenor saxophone as well.Įlliott Sharp, guitarist, composer, improviser from the Downtown New York music scene. and more recently on Oceans Of Milk and Treacle on Room40. Our 60 year friendship goes back to the 1960s and my first band The Blues Committee then on through the 1970s to Trout Steel and the Machine Gun Company on the Dawn label meeting up again in the mid 1990s on my Island Songs c.d. All of them with a unique ability to respond creatively, in any genre or context, in a creative, spontaneous and improvised manner.įeaturing Geoff Hawkins on tenor sax. Collaboration, improvisation, innovation.ĭuring the Covid lockdown period I started on line long distance collaborations with a team of friends and made Oceans Of Milk and Treacle for Room40.Ī family of long time associates plus some more recent and one that I have never met in person.
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