International Festival of Improvised Music Movement and Voice at The

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International festival of improvised music movement and voice 26th/27tli/28tli June 1981

at The Cockpit Theatre Gateforth St London NW8 I

FEMINIST IMPROVISING GROUP

GEORGIE BORN: and 'M usic And Feminism'. Lindsay Cooper has Georgie Born plays cello and bass guitar. She also written the score for 'The Song Of The I left music college to work with a rock group Sh irt', a film about women in the clothes trade i and in experimental and 'avant garde' perform- of the l8A 0s. Her recordings include all the | ances. She joined Henry Cow in 1976 and toured Henry Cow records except the very first, Art Europe extensively for two y e a rs, and took part Bears: 'Hopes And Fears', and with Mike in the Henry Cow collaboration with the Mike Oldfield, Stove llillage and Hatfield & The North. Westbrook Brass Band and Frankie Armstrong She is currently working on 'Gold' with Sally . called the Orckestra. Subsequently she also Potter and Rose English and recently released played with National Health, IOU T heatre, a record under her own name entitled 'Rags', Derek Bailey's Company and is a member of the based on her music for the film 'The Song Of London Musicians' Collective. Other work The Shirt'. includes occasional liasons with the Italian rock group Stormy Six and in Mike Westbrook's 'Cortege' orch estra. Recordings on which MAGGIE NICOLS: Georgie Born has been featured include Henry Cow:' Western Culture', Art Bears: 'Hopes And Maggie Nicols contributes voice and piano to Fears', National Health: 'Of Queues And Cures', FIG . She has worked with many jazz and theatre Raincoats: 'Odyshape', Mike Westbrook: 'Blake', groups including the Spontaneous Music and Lindsay Cooper's 'Rags'. She also played Ensemble, the IOU Theatre Group, Ark and bass for the recent Flying Lizards gig at the Centipede (Keith Tippett's two large-scale Riverside Studios. orchestras) and rock and soul groups including Ova. She has held voice workshops regularly in LINDSAY COOPER: London for the last seven y ears as well as in Europe (at Pisa, Florence, Geneva and Zurich, Lindsay Cooper played bassoon, oboe and for example). She has performed with Voice— soprano saxophone with Henry Cow from 197A to the all-vocal quartet which also featured Julie 1978. She has worked with Derek Bailey’s Tippetts, Phil Minton and Brian Eley—and with Company and other improvisation groups, the other improvising musicians, for example, Orckestra and with theatre groups (the Tokyo Vario H with Gunter Christmann, John Russell, Kid Brothers, Ritual Theatre, Lumtcre & Son) Maarten Altenn and Paul Lovens. Her and also with Mike Westbrook's 'Cortege'. She recordings include the oponymously entitled has published articles on 'Rock And Sexuality' album by Voice, releases by the Spontaneous IRENE ROBBINS: The pianist and vocalist was born ■on April 15th, 1955 in Detroit, Michigan to a family of musicians Her father was a jazz drummer in Detroit (who played with Kenny B u rrell, amongst others) and her mother a jazz vocalist in her native city of New York. Irene Robbins has received a director of choral music degree at the Michigan State University and has given various concerts in the * classical, contemporary and jazz scenes Tor both voice and piano. Before her residence in Italy, where in 1980 she married Claudio l.odnti, she worked in the US and gave concerts there. For the last few years she's played with many Italian musicians in different settings around Italy. Recently she has worked together with the Art Studio on their third album, which will soon be released.

CLAUDIO LODAT1: This electric guitarist was born in Turin, Italy on January 28th, 1954. Ho has been working in Sally Potter the modern jazz scene for several years and is one of the four musicians who constitute the Art Studio. This Italian quartet has two albums already available, 'Art Studio' (Drums 2015) and 'Diagnosi' (CMC 101), with a third due out very Music Ensemble and a recently recorded duo soon. He has toured with the group both in Italy album with Julie Tippetts. and elsewhere. Lodati has also participated in other groups with such musicians as Guido SALLY POTTER: Mazzon, Radu Malfatti, Roberto Bellatalla. In Sally Potter has worked in film, performance recent years he has also lead a quartet with and music since 1970, and she provides voice Irene Robbins. In 1978 he played in the Milan and tenor sax to the FIG resou rces. Her films festival 'L e Corde nel Mondo' ('The Strings Of I hove been shown in festivals in London at the The World') with Fred Frith and Hans Reichel. ^ National Film Theatre, in New York and in Most of the works for the Art Studio, the trio experimental cinemas in Europe. She has and the newly-formed CMC Orchestra (Creative choreographed for and performed with dance Music Co-operative) have been composed by groups, including Strid er, tn Britain, Holland Lodati. and Norway. In 1974 she formed the Limited Dance Company with Jacky Lnnsley and produced FI0REN20 SORDINI: performances in Europe and the USA. She has The percussionist was born near the town of ' worked on large scale feminist theatre events Turin in Italy on October 28th, 1954. He was one with Rose English. Her musical experience has of the founders of the Art Studio. He participated been diverse, ranging from busking to playing with Claudio Lodati, Carlo Actis Dato and —for example— Edith Piaf and Salome in theatre Enrico Fazio in this group in the International events. She now performs intermittently with Jazz Festival in Reggio Emilia, the Sixth Jazz other improvising musicians. Sally Potter Festival in Foggia, the Seventh International recently directed the film 'Thriller', premiered Jazz Festival in Padova, etc. Besides their at the 1979 Edinburgh Festival, which has numerous national appearances they've also subsequently been shown at several major film played at the Bim lluis in Amsterdam, the Fifth festivals (for example, Berlin and New York) Tubingin Festival in Germany, the Belfort and she has toured extensively showing it in European Jazz Festival and the Sens Festival in both Europe and the USA. She is currently France. In 1975 he and the other musicians working with Lindsay Cooper and Rose English resided in Paris where they collaborated with on a major film, 'Gold'. Lindsay Cooper, several French musicians. Georgie Born and Sally Potter now have a group Fiorenzo Sordini has worked in various groups entitled Marx B ros, which recently played in with Steve Lacy, llerve Bourdc, Steve Potts, New York. It is a song-orientated group and Elton Dean, Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, they hope to record later this year. Roberto Bellatalla, etc.