Gavin Bryars composed a guitar piece for Derek Bailey called "The
Squirrel & the Ricketty Racketty Bridge". A piece for one guitarist
playing two simultaneous guitars. Bailey ended up recording the
composition with four players on eight guitars ... we wanted to treat
the eight & add three more .... different instruments.
Basil Psanoudakis - Turntables & ebow bass
Paul Pax Andrews - Saxophone
Wheldon Thornley - Keyboards
Basil Psanoudakis - Turntables & ebow bass
Paul Pax Andrews - Saxophone
Wheldon Thornley - Keyboards
"There is no doubt in my mind that my friend Derek Bailey was one of the
major figures in music – and not just improvised music – over the last
thirty years. I was a 19-year old philosophy student, and beginning jazz
bass player, in Sheffield when I first met him in 1962. Along with
drummer Tony Oxley, our trio – called Joseph Holbrooke -
developed over the next four years an original and experimental approach
to improvisation that led us away from jazz into uncharted areas of
collective free playing."
