People band

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The People Band was a British ensemble of new improvisation music, which initially existed between 1966 and 1972 and had the instrumentation of a rock band. In 1988 the formation, whose aesthetic function allegedly was to blur the differences between the speakers and their auditorium, was revived.

history

The formation emerged from the Terry Holman Trio , which had been in existence since 1960 , and which included the double bass player, drummer Terry Day and pianist Russell Hardy. It was initially called Continuous Music Ensemble , before being given its current name around 1967. In addition to music, the People Show was frequently performed until 1970 , which included elements of theater, readings, and sculpture with the music. The band played once at the Anarchists Annual Ball , but were soon interrupted because their game was too anarchic for the anarchists.

In 1968 there was a record recording mediated by Charlie Watts ; in his biography it is claimed that he starred on the album. Since the label Transatlantic could not market the 1970 released record properly, it was soon sold off. The band has performed annually since 1967 in the Netherlands, where, unlike in Great Britain, they were well paid; the later CD 69/70 contains a recording from the Paradiso in Amsterdam , which was made in 1970.

At a performance of Musica Elettronica Viva in 1969 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , the formation took part in their piece Sound Pool : Within 15 minutes, a large part of the audience was so dancing and singing that the hall management became frightened, as did the police and fire brigade alerted who ended the performance.

Also Cornelius Cardew worked at the beginning of the 1970s, occasionally with the People band before the band broke up. Some of the musicians were then at Kilburn and the High Roads . Occasionally the group played in the late 1970s. For the film Stormy Monday by Mike Figgis , who played in the formation since 1968, this has revived the group; ten of the earlier musicians have since formed the core of the People Band , which has not made any new recordings on sound carriers.

Discography

  • People Band (with Mel Davis, Terry Day, Terry Holman, George Khan , Frank Flowers, Tony Edwards, Mike Figgis, Eddie Edam, Russell Hardy, Lyn Dobson; Transatlantic / Emanem 1968)
  • People Volume 69/70 (with Charlie Hart, Terry Day, George Khan, Butch Potter, Mel Davis, Iain Jacobs, Paul Jolly, Davey Payne, Mike Figgis, Albert Kovitz et al .; Emanem 1969-70)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mike Heffley : Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz Yale 2005, p. 90
  2. ^ According to Alan Clayson Charlie Watts p. 89, it was an independent theater group from North London that had been based in one of the Arts Laboratories since 1967 . The theater group has existed independently of the music group since 1970.
  3. ↑ Edwin Pouncey The Wire 2009, cit. n. People Volume 69/70 Emanem 5201
  4. ^ Alan Clayson Charlie Watts 2010, p. 90. There is no evidence for this.
  5. ↑ Alvin Curran On Musics 15 (1978), cf. Beate Kutschke Neue Linke / New Music: Cultural Theories and Artistic Avant-garde in the 1960s and 70s Cologne 2007, p. 20
  6. ^ Daniel Kernohan, Bill Smith, Dan Lander Music Is Rapid Transportation: From the Beatles to Xenakis , p. 130
  7. ↑ Alvin Curran On Musics 15