On The Edge

A few weeks ago I travelled down to Brighton with my trio (Webster/Holub/McLaren) to play at On The Edge - the night run by Brighton's Safehouse collective. It was the first time our trio had played outside London, and we had a great gig to a very enthusiastic listening audience. I mainly played Baritone for this gig, and Toby just brought his synth and effects instead of the usual Rhodes. This slight change to the usual format worked really well, with the synth bringing out more 'sounds' and the baritone sometime playing more of a support/rhythm section role.

Here's a clip of the first track from our set:
Webster/Holub/McLaren live in Brighton by colinwebster

Many thanks to Gus Garside and everyone at Safehouse for bringing us down there.
http://www.safehousebrighton.co.uk/

Raise The Hallows 2011

I'm co-promoting this night, and also playing Baritone in 'Asteroid' - large sci-fi, doom-improv, drone, noise ensemble.

BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI
http://www.myspace.com/bluesabbathblackfiji

ULTIMATE THRUSH

http://www.myspace.com/ultimatethrush

JUSSI BRIGHTMORE
http://www.myspace.com/gumtakestooth

ASTEROID
http://soundcloud.com/asteroid-ensemble

Dusk Til Dawn, Archway, N19 3TD

Solo improvisation

I'm working on some close-miked solo improvisations at the moment. There's still some technical issues to address, but here's a taster of a work in progess:

solo 1 by colinwebster

Spasm Band News

Lots going on in the world of The Spasm Band right now. The new album - Rubber Orchestras - has just been released in France a couple of weeks ago on CD, vinyl, and download. Reviews and reactions from DJs has been excellent, and the album has been in the top 10 of the soul/R&B album charts on iTunes. We've had a few gigs as well, the album launch was at New Morning in Paris - legendary venue that we've played a few times now. We also had a trip to Marseille, one of my favourite cities to play in, to play at the Marsatac Festival.

The album is due out in the UK and the rest of Europe on Oct 12th. We're having a UK album launch at Empowering Church in Hackney on Nov 11th.

During our summer tour in Western France we shot this video for 'She Is The Sea', on a particularly wet and windy day in St Nazaire:

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

Webster/Holub/McLaren Resonance FM Session

Back in May, Toby, Mark and myself went down to the Resonance FM studios to play some music and have a chat on Joe Kassman-Tod's 'Disorder At The Border' show.

Both tracks we played on the session are now available here for download:

Track 1
Track 2

Colin Webster - Tenor Sax, Toby McLaren - Fender Rhodes, Mark Holub - Drums.
Special thanks to Resonance FM - www.resonancefm.com

Webster/Holub/McLaren Live Recording

This track is taken from the set we played at Flim Flam @ Ryan's Bar, Stoke Newington in March this year.

Colin Webster - Tenor Sax, Mark Holub - Drums, Toby McLaren - Fender Rhodes.
Download it here