![]() Leigh accepted Henry Cow's invitation to join the band in 1972, and he played on their first album Legend (1973). In the early 1970s Leigh performed with Henry Cow on several occasions he had known the band's drummer Chris Cutler from school. In 1969 he joined Gerry Fitzgerald's band Mouseproof, which introduced Leigh to the budding Canterbury scene and musicians like Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers, and Robert Wyatt. ![]() His professional career began in 1968, touring the United Kingdom and Europe with various jazz- rock- progressive rock groups, mainly Crazy Mabel. Geoff Leigh's first gigs were with soul music bands in Manchester in 1965, (the beginnings of the Northern soul scene), in clubs such as the Twisted Wheel. He was a member of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow and founded several bands himself, including Red Balune, Random Bob, Black Sheep, Mirage, and Ex-Wise Heads. 'Women hold up half the sky' MAO TSE TUNG, which lay behind Lindsay's Half the Sky, on HenryĮdition 'Archive Box' set of 8CDRs and 4 DVDRs, 2012 Japan.Geoff Leigh (born 5 October 1945) is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily soprano saxophone and flute. The Lindsay Cooper Songbook: CC, Dagmar Krause,Chloe Herington,(Jean-Herve Peron - not in the band, he and Carina were letting us use their mill to rehearse in), Nasuno Mitsuru,Yumi Hara, Miwazow, Wataru Okhuma For performances in Europe John Greaves, Tim Hodgikinson and Dagmar Krause joined (in place of Nasuno, Wataru and Miwazow, since transcontinental flights make these sorts of bands virtually impossible to tour) and this formation took the name of The Herington playing bassoon and soprano sax and without Keiko and Yumiko. Okhuma, CC, Keiko Komori, Yuriko Mukoujima, Nasunoįestival in Carmaux and there was a second tour in Japan, this time with Chloe We toured with a programme consisting mainly of Lindsay compositions for Henry Mitsuru, bass, Yuriko Mukoujima (violin, melodica, keyboard), Wataru Soprano sax), Miwazow (koto, singing, ching-dong percussion), Nasuno ![]() Hara (keyboards, harp, voice, Keiko Komori (bassclarinet, These concerts inspired Yumi to put together a band, in Japan, to We also performed at the Huddersfieldĭiego Fabbri, in Forli. Moscow and Music for Films ( viz Michel Berckmans, Fred Frith, John Greaves, Alfred Harth, Tim Hodgkinson, Dagmar Krause, Phil Minton, Zeena Parkins, Sally Potter,Anne-Marie Roeloffs, Veryan Weston and myself) to perform a memorial programme at the Barbican Theatre in London, to celebrate the life and work of Lindsayįinally been overwhelmed by the accumulated effects of Multiple Sclerosis. HALF THE SKY and THE LINDSAY COOPER SONGBOOKįrom the Lindsay Cooper Memorial concert at the Barbican: Tim Hodgkinson, Alfred Harth, Michel Berckmans, Anne-Marie Roelofs The LCS has both Japanese and European editions with have slightly varying personnel. Lindsay Copper Songbook - an ensemble formed by Yumi to play Lindsay’s music. Hodgkinson, that so far has a couple of Japanese tours and a scattering of European concerts under its belt. Occasional concerts still pop up now and then. Jean-Herve proposed that Yumi and I join most of what was then Faust and play as Jumpįor Joy! This led directly to an invitation to play again at an amusement park in Goteborg, and later at the RIO Festival in Carmaux. Me & Us were scheduled to play at Jean-Herve Peron's Avantgardeįestival in 2014 but shortly beforehand it became clear that Daevid would be unable to make it (he was too unwell). Jump for Joy!:Geraldine, CC, Jean-Herve Peron,Geoff Leigh, Werner Diermier, Yumi Hara Later, Yumi and I fell into a sometime trio with DaevidĪ number of concerts in London and toured Since we appeared to be a group we needed a name, which turned out to be TheĪrtaud Beats. Geoff's suggestion - which was invited on the spot to play at the Nodutgangįestival the next year, in Norway. ![]() John Greaves and I, who were also there playing slaphappy material with Dagmar and the Peterīlegvad trio, wound up in a scratch quartet with Geoff Leigh and Yumi - at I first met Yumi at Jean Herve Peron’s Avantgardeįestival, in 2009. ![]() The Artaud Beats: John Greaves, Geogff Leigh, CC, Yumi Hara ![]()
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