The Artaud Beats
Geoff Leigh (flute, voice, electronics) Yumi Hara (keys, voice) Chris Cutler (drums) John Greaves (bass, voice) The Artaud Beats (Geoff Leigh: sax, fl, vo, electronics, Yumi Hara: p, vo, Chris Cutler: dr, John Greaves: b, vo) came together in a chance encounter at Jean-Hervé Péron's Avantgarde Festival in Schiphorst, 2009. Geoff Leigh and Yumi Hara were there as a duo, Chris Cutler and John Greaves with Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause. It was Geoff who proposed the quartet and Jean-Hervé enthusiastically supported the idea - since Geoff, Chris, and John had all been in Henry Cow together when they toured with Faust; and Yumi seemed the perfect companion. The concert was fine, the public happy and a Norwegian promoter from Bodo, who happened to be in the audience, immediately invited us to his next festival. So our casual meeting metamorphosed into a band. We gave ourselves a name: The Artaud Beats, and made ourselves available. Two tours of Japan and a box-set later, we're back - still with no programme and no songs, and still engaged in the hazardous but honourable art of conjuring music out of empty air. (written for RIO 2014)
The Artaud Beats list of gigs 2009 30 August 2009 Avantgarde Festival, Schiphorst, Germany 2011 28 October 2011 Nodutgang Festival, Bodo, Norway
2012 Fri 8 June, Toyohashi, House of Crazy (Improvised music workshop) http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~hofcrazy/index.htm
2013 Wed 29 May, Nagoya, Tokuzo http://www.tokuzo.com/ Thu 30 May, Toyohashi, House of Crazy http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~hofcrazy/index.htm
Fri 31 May, Osaka, Nishikujo, Psychedelic Bar Soft Machine http://www.softmachine.cc Sat 1 June, Oumi Hachiman, Sakedelic Space Shuyukan http://www.shuyukan.com/sakedelic/ Sun 2 June (eve), Kobe, Motomachi Cinema 'Romantic Worriors II: About Rock in Opposition' screening + Chris Cutler & Yumi talk & performance http://www.motoei.com Mon 3 June, Fukuoka, Hakozaki Suizokukan Kissashitsu http://www.hakosui.net/ Fri 7 June, Tokorozawa, MOJO http://www.mojo-m.com/ Mon 10 June, Tokyo, Bar Isshee presents at Li-Po
2014 13 Sept 2014, Fort Process Festival, Newhaven, East Sussex, UK 20 Sept 2014, Rock in Opposition, Carmaux, FRANCE 13 Nov 2014, BIG APPLE, Kobe, JAPAN http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/i/big-apple/ 15 Nov 2014, Rock in Opposition Japan, Tokyo, JAPAN 2015 5 June 2015, CD LOGOS launch, Le Triton, LES LILAS, FRANCE
2016 26 Feb 2016, Copenhagen Vinterjazz, Winter Jazz Festival, Copenhagen Jazzhouse, DENMARK
ON RECORD 2012 Nodutgang. Bodo. (Limited Edition CDR of Norway Live in 2011) 2012 Avantgarde Festival (Limited Edition CDR of Avantgarde Festival Live in 2009) 2012 Japan. 03.06.12-17.06.12 (Limited Edition 'Archive Box' set of 8CDRs and 4 DVDRs) 2013 Japan.03.06.12-17.06.12, second impression (Limited Edition 'Archive Box' set of 8CDRs and 4 DVDRs plus extra DVDR) 2013 Japan Revisited 2012 (Limited Edition CDR, compliation from the Box) 2013 Shibuya (Limited Edition DVDR) 2015 LOGOS, CD, Bonobo's Ark BAR004 2015 LOGOS, CD, Japanese version with Obi and detailed liner notes in Japanese, first edition with limited CDR, Disk Union, DUPG201
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