Recent Press

Interview with 'A Jazz Noise':

http://ajazznoise.com/7-questions-for-colin-webster/

Interview with 'Opduvel' (in Dutch):

https://opduvel.com/2017/03/28/colin-webster-rauwe-improvisator-en-lo-fi-labelbaas/

DunningWebsterUnderwood 'Viol Of Acetate' reviewed in The Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/22051-casual-nun-shitmat-kiran-leonard-colin-webster-album-review

Birchall / Cheetham / Webster / Willberg 'Plastic Knuckle' reviewed in The Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/21822-jazz-review-matthew-shipp-the-necks-george-lewis-album

Birchall / Cheetham / Webster / Willberg 'Plastic Knuckle' and Cheetham / Webster / Willberg 'The Small Departs, The Great Approaches' reviewed in Dalston Sound:

https://dalstonsound.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/birchall-cheetham-webster-willberg-plastic-knuckle/

Birchall / Smal / Webster 'Drop Out' reviewed in His Voice (in Czech):

http://www.hisvoice.cz/cz/articles/detail/3337

Viol of Acetate

New split cassette release on the London based Lumen Lake label, 'Viol of Acetate' is a live album by DunningWebsterUnderwood recorded at Cafe Oto last year. The tape is split with Rutger Hauser who also performed on the same evening. The cassette release is a limited edition of 80 with multi-layered translucent artwork by John Harries. 

Line-up: Graham Dunning - turntable and dubplates, Colin Webster - baritone saxophone, Sam Underwood - tuba.

Oval

New cassette release on the Tombed Visions label, 'Oval' is taken from an improvised studio session with Graham Dunning on turntable, dubplates, and effects. 

"Punctuated by space-echo swirls and throbbing with heaving drones, Oval is a far spacier record than Dunning and Webster’s previous collaborations. Where, for instance, Estigate, their first joint on Linear Obsessional Recordings, stuttered and started in spasmodic convulsions, this one heaves and swells.
Oval has a kind of cinematic grandeur, an impressionistic rapture in broad brushstrokes and dappled light to contrast with the pointillism of its predecessor. Even if the second side is more sparse and kinetic, it still feels windswept and expansive in it’s bruised intimacy.”

Robert Barry – The Wire. July 2016

Line-up: Colin Webster - Baritone Saxophone, Graham Dunning - Turntable, Dubplates, Spring Reverbs

Recent Press

DunningWebsterUnderwood - Bleed
"..a slow, steady exploitation of applied pressure, an improvisation structured on deep breath-blooms like monolithic, dry ice-shrouded Sunn O))) riffs, stretched and slowed." Tim Owen, Dalston Sound

Birchall/Cheetham/Webster/Willberg - Night Streets Of Madness

"Even in the realm of free improvisation, music rarely sounded this brutally physical. Each of these four virtuoso instrumentalists is given the space to produce some of their best individual improvisations and solos to date, but Night Streets Of Madness works best when they play as one single instinctive entity, somehow twisting punishing impulsiveness into densely textured long form (spontaneous) compositions." Tristan Bath, The Quietus

Reviews of 'Bleed', 'Night Streets Of Madness', and Dikeman/Serries/Lisle/Webster - Live at Cafe Oto 

"Webster.. has an instinctive gift for hooking up with sound-makers of all stripes, his questing drive to produce far-out sounds balanced only by the generosity and egalitarianism of his own musical practices. You could say that he plays ‘in the pocket’ – a strange term to use for a horn player, yet it reflects Webster’s ability to lock into a groups’ dynamic, neither dominating it with his contributions nor becoming submerged." Paul Margree, We Need No Swords.

All albums available from http://colinwebster.bandcamp.com

Photo credit: Dawid Laskowski

DunningWebsterUnderwood - Bleed

DunningWebsterUnderwood is a new project adding 'drone-doom' tubaist Sam Underwood to my long-running saxophone and turntable duo with Graham Dunning. Our debut album 'Bleed' was recorded last year in an improvised session at Sam's studio in Worcestershire.

"..a slow, steady exploitation of applied pressure, an improvisation structured on deep breath-blooms like monolithic, dry ice-shrouded Sunn O))) riffs, stretched and slowed." - Tim Owen (Dalston Sound)

The album is available on CD and download from Adaadat Records.

Line-up: Graham Dunning - turntable & effects, Colin Webster - baritone saxophone, Sam Underwood - tuba

Live at Hundred Years Gallery

'Live at Hundred Years Gallery' is the new album by my saxophone/turntable duo with Graham Dunning. Released by the excellent CRAM record label, the album contains our full set performed at the East London gallery in October last year.

The album is currently available as limited edition CDR and download:

Colin Webster / Graham Dunning - Live in Zurich Video

Footage of the full set with Graham Dunning recorded at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, during our tour earlier this year.


Colin Webster and Graham Dunning - Live from Ornament Collective on Vimeo.

Graham Dunning: turntable, mixer, dubplates
Colin Webster: tenor saxophone, clarinet

Invertebrata - Available Now

New release on Raw Tonk Records: Invertebrata is a duo record with Graham Dunning, and the follow-up to our previous album 'Estigate'. Recorded in the same series of sessions in South London, Invertebrata features minimal and textured improvisations using tenor and baritone saxophones, Walkmans, found tapes, and amplified objects.

The download version is pay-what-you-want. The physical version is a limited edition CDR (50 copies), with individually hand-printed covers.

http://rawtonkrecords.bandcamp.com
http://www.grahamdunning.com

Webster / Dunning Tour

I'm playing a series of shows with Graham Dunning on turntable throughout April in the UK and Switzerland. The dates are:

15th April - Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

https://www.facebook.com/events/1506242346269924/

22nd April - Servant's Jazz Quarters, London, UK

http://www.servantjazzquarters.com/event/ripsaw-catfish-tiom-colin-webster-graham-dunning

24th April - Quadrant Lounge, Wolverhampton, UK

https://www.facebook.com/events/1488642598025934/

25th April - Noise Above Noise @ The Penthouse NQ, Manchester, UK

http://thepenthousenq.com/events

26th April - Noise Broadway @ Fabric Lab, Bradford, UK

https://www.facebook.com/events/625941307486571/?ref=22

27th April - Blank Canvas @ The Ship and Mitre, Liverpool, UK

http://www.improvisersnetwork.co.uk/bc/2014/bc30.htm

29th April - Horse Improv Club @ The Doghouse, London, UK

http://horseimprovclub.flavors.me

Our album 'Estigate' was released by Linear Obsessional Recordings last month. Buy/stream/download the album here.

Estigate - Available Now

New release on Linear Obsessional Recordings: Estigate is a saxophone/turntables duo album with Graham Dunning. Minimal and textured improvisations using tenor and baritone saxophones, specially recorded dubplates, and prepared turntables.

The download version is pay-what-you-want. The physical version is a limited edition CDr (50 copies), which comes in a carry-case containing shellac disc fragments, and a map.

www.linearobsessional.org
www.grahamdunning.com

New Solo Album - Antennae

My new solo album 'Antennae' will be released on cassette and download by Gaffer Records in a few weeks time. In the meantime you can now stream the album from Gaffer's bandcamp page:
http://gafferrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antennae

The album is a series of short improvisations exploring a strict palette of minimal saxophone sounds, with an emphasis on breath and mechanical noises over "pure/natural" notes.

Antennae was recorded, mixed and mastered by Alex Bonney. The download version also features a remix by Alex, and one by Graham Dunning.

Unchartered Soundscapes

On Wednesday 23rd January I'm performing an improvised sax and turntables set with Graham Dunning at The Lumiere in Clapton. The full line-up is:

Graham Dunning (turntables)/Colin Webster (saxophone)

Elo Masing (violin)/Dave Maric (electronics)

Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen (percussion)

Lumiere, 88 Chatsworth Road, E5 0LS. Tickets are £5

Full details of Unchartered Soundscapes are here: 

http://papatoi.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/uncharted-soundscapes-wednesday-23.html

Duo With Graham Dunning

I've just finished recording a series of saxophone and turntable improvisations with Graham Dunning. Graham is a sound/visual artist who uses a lot of field recordings, tapes, found sounds, custom vinyl, etc.. in his work. In this project he used a fairly minimal set-up of a turntable and mixer. For me this is a continuation of the solo work I've done recently, exploring extended techniques, and employing very quiet sounds. We'll be looking to release the recordings once we've finished the editing/mastering process. Meanwhile here's a link to Graham's work, and a couple of shots from the session:

http://grahamdunning.com

Asteroid - Black Lines

A performance I was involved in by sci-fi improv collective 'Asteroid' has been released as a free download by netlabel Electronic Musik, with accompanying remixes by Noise Research and Guy Harries.

The EP can be downloaded from Archive.org: http://archive.org/details/BlackLinesem171

Open Sound Group - Warehouse One

Back in August I participated in a 12-piece group improvisation session at a warehouse in North London. The session was curated by sound artist/improvisor Graham Dunning, and included musicians from several different improvising disciplines. The resulting recordings have been released as a free download on the Open Sound Group website:

http://www.archive.org/details/OpenSoundGroup-WarehouseOne