#seymour wright

[garadinervi]

أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty, (Boxset: 5 x CD + 96 page book in rigid slipcase (first and second edition); Digital album), fönstret 9–13, Fönstret, 2024 [Boomkat]

Compositions by ahmed abdul-malik, re-imagined and arranged by [ahmed]

Pat Thomas: piano Seymour Wright: alto saxophone Joel Grip: double bass Antonin Gerbal: drums

Produced by John Chantler and Seymour Wright

Recorded 10-14 August 2022 at Fylkingen, Stockholm by Mattias Hållsten and John Chantler Mixed by John Chantler and Seymour Wright Mastered by Andreas [Lupo] Lubich

Cover Photos by Leif Wigh and Christopher Landergren

Book texts by Silvia Tarozzi, Magnus Granberg, Nate Wooley, Valerie Mol, Pär Thörn and Lars Grip Drawings by Guillaume Delcourt and Aliocha Delcourt Camera op for inner sleeve photos: Feronia Wennborg

[dustedmagazine]

X-Ray Hex Tet — s-t (Reading Group)

The ensemble X-Ray Hex Tet is the convergence of some of the most interesting improvisers currently working in the UK. Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) and Pat Thomas (piano and electronics) play together in [Ahmed], one of the most forward-thinking groups currently rethinking the jazz tradition. Wright and Paul Abbott (real and imaginary drums) work together in a variety of contexts. XT shatters the reed/drums free improv tradition through the use of feedback, electronics and studio experimentation both as a duo and with collaborators like Thomas, RP Boo and Anne Gillis. lll人 is Wright and Abbott’s skirling elecro-acoustic improv trio along with Daichi Yoshikawa. Wright and Crystabel Riley (drums) play together in the splintered skronk duo @xcrswx. Wright and Abbott have worked with Billy Steiger (celeste and violin) as part of the Creaking Breeze Ensemble, expanding on the writings of American poet/novelist Nathaniel Mackey. Each member of the ensemble also have solo practices well worth investigating. The group is rounded out by Edward George (words and recordings), a writer and broadcaster who was a founding member of Black Audio Film Collective and a member of the techno dub group Hallucinator.

Weaving together so many diverse threads could easily result in a musical mess. But the sextet masterfully draws on their collective experiences, melding the distinctive parts into a true ensemble music. Their debut self-titled release was recorded live at the Taktlos Festival in Zurich in 2023, capturing two half-hour collective improvisations. The first piece begins with blasts of Wright’s alto, meticulously adding in filaments of electronics, percussion and the quiet underflow of chattering words. George’s text emerges from the spare instrumental interplay, examining the colonialization of African and Caribbean countries by Britain. Riley’s cascading drums and Abbott’s percussive punctuations provide a free momentum to the piece as the layers of reeds, keyboards, electronics, strings and reverb-drenched speech move in parallel, intersecting and overlapping while displaying a keen ear toward leaving space for all of the timbrally-rich details to emerge. Densities build and release, pushing and pulling at the free trajectories of the piece. The central section drops to quiet, considered interplay then surges with intertwined forceful torrents  and sputtering fragmented shards of sound which they adeptly bring to a collective resolve.

The second piece emerges with reed overtones, pinging electronics, shuddering sheets of sound, and spattered drums. Steiger’s celeste introduces brittle sonorities that fuse with Wright’s stabbing alto, shimmering electronic scrims, percussive slashes and George’s decayed exclamations. Riley introduces fractured snare rolls that propels the improvisation into surging layers as George chants the names of people martyred to racist state violence as the improvisation transforms into an abstracted dirge. 20 minutes in, the piece builds intensity with whirling ebbs and flows of crackling electronics, roiling drums, chiming celeste and piano, and reed microtones. The group brings the improvisation to a close with hissing textures and George’s whispered and processed recitations that recede into quivering striations. With their debut release, X-Ray Hex Tet has staked out their place at the nexus of free electro-acoustic improvisation and potent political statements. With the impressive, continued output of each of the members, this release hasn’t seemed to get the attention it deserves. One hopes it finds a wider audience. I look forward to hearing where the group will take the project.

Michael Rosenstein

[zef-zef]

أحمد [Ahmed]

from left: Joel Grip (bass), Pat Thomas (piano), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Seymour Wright (saxophone).

source: thewire © 📸: Guy Bolongaro & Anne Tetzlaff

[culturedarm]

The opening minutes of ‘El Haris (Anxious)’ from the Fylkingen festival capture something of a peacock’s proud strut, with Pat Thomas’s piano leading a staggered march as the bass and drums of Joel Grip and Antonin Gerbal wobble and shimmer and the staccato of Seymour Wright’s alto saxophone splays like the furling and unfurling of a train of covert feathers.

https://culturedarm.com/%d8%a3%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af-ahmed-wood-blues-giant-beauty/

[charlesdesvoeux]

likely thing for a member of the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to say (source)

[dwightsfavourite]

ace attorney x bully prefects tf

[hearts4pearlescentmoon]

OK WHAT THIE FUCK IS GOING ON

recently I started watching pm Seymour’s videos and for a bit I was like “hey that voice sounds familiar” and “hey that name sounds familiar” nothing to big my brain makes stuff up sometimes so i ignored it

Then PM starts talking to the editor, Andy. And I thought “just like that one guy from a few years ago” right. Again, nothing too big.

THEN Andy plays a clip of himself. He’s British. No big deal there’s a lot of British people named Andy it’s probably just a coincidence that he sounds like that one guy.

weeks later, I finally watch the video pm has pinned on his YouTube page. There is a section along the lines of “ I may have voiced some of the characters from your childhood” AND THEN HE SHOWS FREAKING TRAVIS. YOU KNOW. FROM MYSTREET. THAT MINECRAFT ROLEPLAY THAT SMALL ME OBSESSED WITH . this conformed my suspicions

I DID recognize the name and the British guy named Andy WAS garroth, and holy shit EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED!

BUT THAT IS NOT ALL MY FRIENDS OHOHOH NOOOO

that would be too easy for this little girls sanity

I then started watching Andy’s videos oh his channel previously known as thedragonhat now known as Evildoerz for the dnd campaign that Andy dms, pm is in, ASWELL AS AMY (binoftrash; the person who make the high quality skins and art for mystreet and various other role plays that aphmau made) AND THE VOICE OF ZANE ( kesten) AND THE VOICE OF KC ( moeka )

so I’m definitely watch that campaign later and becoming obsessed with it only to never talk about it on here

BUT while serfing though Andy’s channel I come across THIS VIDEO ( I can’t find it sorry) and the Elsie Lovelock aka THE VOICE OF UZI is there so once again

ok while I was looking to find the video mentioned above I saw this video and thought “maybe was it that one” so I looked up Elsie on IMDb turns out she voiced Jennifer in MCD I didn’t know who that was and decided to look around the cast a bit.

I found SungWon voiced Gabriel who if I remember correctly is one of aphs adopted sons in diary’s

SUNGWON VOICED MORDECAI IN LACKADAISY

what the fuck

ALL MY INTERESTS PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE ARE ALL CONNECTED AND I CANNOT EXCAPE IT.

@itsapmseymour I blame you for this. I blame you for my insanity

[tudorscostumesreused]

This Orange Dress is worn on Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth I (2006) and worn again on Gabriella Wright as Queen Claude in The Tudors (2007) and last seen again on Anabelle Wallis as Jane Seymour in The Tudors (2009)

[worstjourney]

hello, I just browsed through your character sheets on your patreon (amazing btw!) and was fascinated by an anecdote about Silas having a laughing fit because of a dance mishap? Do you know more about this story? It sounds like such a funny scene!

This comes from Tryggve Gran's diary. It was the night they celebrated the Return of the Sun in the miserable Second Winter. They knew their friends were dead, they didn't know how; the weather was constantly atrocious – they needed a party, and even though no one saw the sun (because there was a blizzard, of course) they celebrated its astronomical return with a big bust-up all the same.

Besides, there was a lot of alcohol to put away before the ship returned to take them all home.

Anyway, Gran records:

We acted like a pack of schoolboys who had just been set loose on holiday. Nelson and I danced a 'mixed Cakewalk Fandango.' Wright was the judge of the dance, the last part of which ended as follows: a somersault by Gran knocked Nelson out of the dance, causing the judge, Wright, a paralysis of laughter which resulted in his making acquaintance with the floor of the hut. His hilarity was uncontrollable, and we the artists didn't find it easy to help in this situation. Wright was therefore carried off to bed where he laughed himself to sleep. — The Norwegian with Scott, p.206

After this, Gran, Keohane, Williamson, Nelson, Atkinson and Debenham launched into a sing-song, with the cook Archer joining them after midnight. They kept going until 2.

That's one of my favourite little Silas anecdotes, so thanks for asking!

[thehutpoint]

So, the dude in the center of the pic, the one with the bobble on his hat is, I believe, The One And Only Lawrence O. I mean the tan, the posture, the broad albeit slightly sloping shoulders, and that wonky bobble, yup, looks like my man. The gentleman with his back to the cam is, I thik Uncle Bill, then we have two bespectacled dudes to the right, that would be Cherry (bare head) and Silas (hat on). The dude in white hat, God, I have no idea, does somene recognise him? The most-on-the-left dude (with that white strip on his back) doesn't have much of recofnisable features, but something in him makes me to suspect the human incarnation of Jack Russell Terrier, known as Teddy Evans. As for the mushroom hat and pipe man... Nope, do not recognise him.

[brown-eyes-blue]

[somosorigen]

Los Juegos Del Hambre: Sinsajo Parte I... Si Nosotros Ardemos, Ustedes Arderán Con Nosotros

Una de las sagas que ha venido de menos a mas, estrena la primera parte de su esperado final, Los Juegos del Hambre: Sinsajo Parte I, llega con fuerza sorprendiendo a propios y extraños por el desarrollo que toma la trama. Continue reading Untitled

[henry-the-queer-artist]

does anybody have a slime tutorial for SIX at this exact date and time: May 21, 2023, 7:00pm.

I was at that show in the front row, and I was wearing a really sparkly dress (which was quite lucky considering I hadn't planned that out) I was invited by Anna of Cleves during the show to stand up for a minute and dance a little (which was crazy!!!!) I want to see how much of a doofus I looked like! So if anybody has one uhhh. Please lemme know.

[camyfilms]

MONEYBALL 2011

I know these guys. I know the way they think, and they will erase us. And everything we've done here, none of it'll matter. Any other team wins the World Series, good for them. They're drinking champagne, they get a ring. But if we win, on our budget, with this team... we'll have changed the game. And that's what I want. I want it to mean something.

[swtsours]

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