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The Dance'n Drone Festival ran for three successive years at The Purcell Room on the South Bank. The last edition featured the premieres of Folies Bergères' new show 'Let Them Eat Cake' (featured at Sidmouth Festival), and Chalemie's latest pantomime: 'Harlequin Sculptor, or Pygmalion and the Missing Toes'.
Both were outstanding successes, and both groups were selected for Early Music Network tours.
Chalemie also ran three very successful Summer Schools of Early Music, Dance and Commedia dell'Arte in August, to be repeated next year. Enquiries welcome.
Jean-Pierre Rasle performed with Bampton Classical Opera the much lauded first revival of 'Nina' by Mozart's friend Paisiello (its original score included Italian bagpipes!).
He is busy editing a unique 17th century manuscript of smallpipes pieces: 'Jean de La Mer' and was commissioned by the Bagpipe Society to translate the classic French bagpipe method of Bernard Boulanger 'Jouer de la Cornemuse', now out.
Monica Huggett's Ensemble Sonnerie performed two concerts, 'Noël! Noël!' with special guests Jean-Pierre Rasle and Caroline Kershaw in the Holywell Room, Oxford, and the Wigmore Hall, London, to great acclaim. More are planned. |
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We cover many styles of music:
Early Music: Chalemie, Pastorales, Folies Bergères, Palladian Ensemble, Ensemble Sonnerie.
Contemporary: Tractatus, Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart,
Jah Wobble & Deep Space.
Folk: The Cock & Bull Band, Monsieur Pantin, Jean-Pierre Rasle
Fusion: Jean-Pierre Rasle & the Dancing Drones, Jean de la Mer,
Parallèles.
All have in common Jean-Pierre Rasle's wide-ranging contributions on wind instruments or voice, as performer, composer or arranger, and his involvement in the recordings or performances of the above ensembles.
Our full Dance & Drones programmes, advance orders, available dates for bookings and sample CD can be obtained from the addresses below (S.A.E. or e.mail)
Randomband now handle bookings for Monsieur Pantin dances, as well as Cock & Bull Band.
For up-to-the-minute diary details, please contact:
tel: +44 ()01923 221701.
For Jean-Pierre Rasle and Monsieur Pantin concerts, please contact Randomband
For entertaining details about band members, visit: |
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Diana Winkfield, Promotions Director, 171, High Street, Stony-Stratford, MILTON KEYNES, MK 11 1 AP, U.K. Telephone: +44 (0)1908 566025
Fax: +44 (0) 871 239 3670 |
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Jean-Pierre Rasle researched, co-wrote and featured on 5 programmes for the last Radio 3 World Music series: 'Singing the Goat, the Music of the Auvergne'.
Selected by its production company Heavy Entertainment for the Sony awards, if you missed it, ask the BBC for a repeat.
Jean-Pierre has also completed the brand-new French entry in the latest edition of The Rough Guide to World Music, out now.
The Cock & Bull Band launched their newest 20th anniversary CD 'Encore du Vin(gt)' -their 7th release- at the Barbican, London.
A return to their dance roots featuring sleeve notes with new dances, it was the basis for their new show at Sidmouth, Chichester, and Towersey Festivals. They now have a new guitarist: Steve Cobham, a new French dance show, and a new agency. Contact: info@randomband-agency.com for bookings.
For entertaining details about band members, check out their website: www.randomband-agency.com
Jean-Pierre, Steve and Paul 'Silk' Martin now also perform as the 'unplugged' trio "Monsieur Pantin" specialising in concerts with a French twist, with special guest.
Their brand-new album Ma Rosalie was launched at Milton Keynes premier jazz-folk venue, The Stables.
Contact: Randomband Agency for concerts
Jean-Pierre Rasle & the Dancing Drones performed 'Cornemusiques' at St Truiden Medieval Festival (Belgium), and at the North Hero Bagpipes Convention, Vermont, U.S.A. Enquiries have also been received from Barcelona and France. |
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Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart: After a series of international concerts including the U.S.A. (New York), Scotland (Edinburgh Hogmanay), Holland (The Hague North Sea Jazz Festival -with live highlights on Dutch TV), and Greece (Athens' 'Free Tibet' Festival) in 1998-99, they released the result of the extraordinary session recorded by the original lineup with Jaki Liebezeit of Can: Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall, after their live appearances in London's Camden Festival.
They now collaborate with world music Laotian singers Molam Lao. Their outstanding CD, Molam Dub is the result, as featured live at Brighton (U.K), Dour (Belgium), and Hiroshima World Peace Festivals with guest star Bill Laswell.
Check out their whacky website game at: www.molamdub.com.
Their latest release: English Roots Music takes Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart back home after all their musical globe-trotting. They toured it extensively in the U.K. and Ireland in 2004 as Jah Wobble's English Roots Band More to come. Jah Wobble & Deep Space: In the last three years they have featured at The South Bank's Contemporary Music Festival, The British Library and Tate Gallery's William Blake celebrations, a string of tours and festivals at home (including Plymouth Eclipse), in Greece, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, and in France with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers: the Roman Arenas in Nîmes in front of 12,000 fans and the prestigious Paris Zenith.
Their title comes from the acclaimed CD of the same name released by 30 Hertz Records. Their most outrageous improvised trance-dub CD so far: Beach Further Spare was released next, followed by their long-awaited double live album: Largely Live in Hartlepool and Manchester
They also toured major U.S. cities twice in 2001, with three dates in New York's Knitting Factory. Both groups joined forces for a nationwide tour in January 2003 also including turntablist Philip Jeck who appears with Deep Space on the most recent 30 Hertz release: 5 Beat
On top of this busy schedule, Jean-Pierre also features on Jah Wobble?s other recent projects: Passage to Hades, the CD featuring jazz-improv. virtuoso Evan Parker, Shout at the Devil, the CD in collaboration with Temple of Sound, Fureur, the soundtrack to Karim Dridi?s film (official French selection to the Berlin Film Festival), The Sounds of Jah Wobble, a special Sound Archive commission, Elevator Music Vol 1a, Car Ad Music, an MP3-only release on eMusic, Bilmadim and Jah Wobble's masterly compilation I Could have been a Contender. He has also just completed a studio session for Jah Wobble that will come out in the brand-new 5:1 DVD format
Check Jah Wobble's website at: www.30hertzrecords.com. for details of forthcoming dates and releases.
Tractatus: Jean-Pierre Rasle and Simon Poulter completed their computer art/music collaborative project on Wittgenstein's Tractatus thanks to a Research and Development grant from the Arts Council. Jean-Pierre and Clive Bell collaborated to perform a live improvised version of the show for the Silbury Group International Symposium of Artists in June 2003, with highlights being selected for the interactive DVD of the event. They are due to tour it as a live multimedia show in the near future. |
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