An anagrammatic, name-shifting, all-electronic improvising of MARTIN HACKETT, synthesizer, DAVID
GRUNDY, laptop & STUART CHALMERS, tapes. As MYRTLE & THE
CHUCKRAGS // THE CRACKLY HARD NUTMEGS// RAMSHACKLE DUTCH GENTRY // ETC,
the group has performed at Red Square’s outdoor improv festival in
Cropredy, and in Oxford, Cambridge and Cheltenham. HACKETT has played in the band CERTAIN ANTS,
whose scant recorded legacy, an elusive cassette release, belies their
excitingly varied approach; after a period in France, where he was and
still is involved in numerous musical approaches, he now resides in
England and is an active member of the OXFORD IMPROVISERS. Notable
collaborators include ADAM BOHMAN, PAT THOMAS and PHIL WASCHMANN. GRUNDY
plays around the UK with various collectives and groupings, and is a student at the University of
Cambridge. CHALMERS plays electronics – currently, manipulated tapes –
and has numerous self-released albums to his name, or to that of his
alter-egos, SKARABEE & tusK.
Together their music is cut-up,
sampled, sliced, randomisation and control jerking apart or together in
some kind of EVOLVING IMPROVISED FORM.
Woebetide Records
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