Yedo Gibson - Projects

CAETITU

Martin Blume (D)- drums; Yedo Gibson (BR)- tenorsax, Eb clarinet; Marcio Mattos (BR)- bass; Veryan Weston (GB)- piano

"This quartet, named after a Brazilian animal, contains two musicians who grew up in Brazil over 30 years apart, and one each from Britain and Germany. However, improvised music is an international language in which they are all fluent. The three seasoned improvisers are joined a newcomer who does not sound at all like a novice. Their improvisations range from white heat to calm reflection."

Martin Davidson

check out: http://www.myspace.com/caetitu

                  Marcio Mattos was
            born in Rio de Janeiro, 20th March 1946. Studied acoustic
            guitar in
            early teens and was active in the brazilian "BOSSA NOVA"
            movement both
            as musician and composer. Played in various semi-pro bands
            late 60's
            Rio,switching to double bass and cello, mainly self-taught,
            after
            becoming interested in Jazz.
      Later entered the Villa-Lobos
            institute
            where he became involved in free improvisation and
            electronic music,
            mainly through the influence of visiting american composers
            Lukas Foss
            and Vladimir Ussachevsky.
      Due to the unfavorable political
            climate and
            military dictatorship of late 60's Brazil he left the
            country in 1970.
            Came to Europe in the early 70's and in London started
            playing at the
                        Little Theatre Club in several of John Stevens' groups.
            Joined also Mal
            Dean's Amazing Band. Since then has performed, recorded and
            broadcast
            both in Britain and abroad in groups including John Surman,
            Evan Parker,
            Keith Tippett, Derek Bailey's Company, Dewey Redman and
            Marylin
            Crispell amongst others. 
     Has also worked with dance
            companies such as
                        Ballet Rambert and The Extemporary Dance Theatre Company,
            and in
            electro-acoustic music groups such as the West Square
            Electronic Music
            Ensemble.
      A long- standing member of the Eddie Prevost
            Quartet and
            various Elton Dean groups. Other current British projects
            include the
            "Bardo State Orchestra", Chris Burn's Ensemble, "Wooden
            Taps" with
                        Maggie Nicols, "Embers" with John Butcher and others,
            "Lines" with Phil
            Wachsmann/Jim Denley/Axel Doerner/Martin Blume and others,
            and "Full
            Monte" with Chris Biscoe, Brian Godding and Tony Marsh.
      International
            projects working in Europe have included Georg Graewe's
            Grubenklang
            Orchestra, Stefano Maltese's "Open Music Ensemble", Tony
            Oxley's
                        Celebration Orchestra, "AXON"-quartet with Phil Minton, Fred
            van Hove
            and Martin Blume, bass/cello and shakuhachi duo with Shiku
            Yano, and in
            Japan various groupings with Sabu Toyozumi and Keiko
            Midorikawa
            and            Martin Blume
            new CD "CAETITU" on
            EMANEM.

        

Martin Blume- drums, percussion, composition has worked since 1983 as a performer and composer with several musicians and in different musical situations, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups including musicians like:

Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, Helmut Joe Sachse, Luc Houtkamp, Johannes Bauer, Conny Bauer, Marcio Mattos, Jay Oliver, Phil Minton, Lol Coxhill, John Butcher, Mario Schiano, Georg Graewe, Frank Gratkowski, Dieter Manderscheid, Hans Schneider, Wolfgang Fuchs, John Edwards, Werner Lüdi, John Russell, Chris Burn, Roger Turner, Joëlle Leandré, Axel Doerner, Horst Grabosch, Melvyn Poore, Earl Howard, Richard Teitelbaum, Jim Denley, Alfred Zimmerlin, Dorothea Schürch, Phil Wachsmann , Mats Gustafsson, Xu Feng Xia, Thomas Lehn, Fred van Hove, Wilbert de Joode, Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, Cor Fuhler a.m.o.

Own projects include LINES with Axel Doerner, Jim Denley, Phil Wachsmann & Marcio Mattos, FOURinONE with Luc Houtkamp, Johannes Bauer & Dieter Manderscheid, AXON with Phil Minton , Marcio Mattos & Fred van Hove, 2nd outlet" with Luc Houtkamp & Cor Fuhler, CAETITU with Yedo Gibson, Veryan Weston, Marcio Mattos and a Duo with Phil Wachsmann and Xu Feng Xia.

Toured in Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, France, England, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, USA, Canada and Australia.

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EKE

Yedo Gibson (BR)- reeds; Oscar Jan Hoogland (NL)- electric clavichord; Gerrie Jaeger (AU)- drums

EKE takes off from free improvisation. Aware of contemporary conceptions these spunky individuals focus on reshaping free improvisation using elements of noise, jazz, 20th century composed music and punk. The result is a dynamic, forward-moving and fresh audio experience.

This method - in which creative process and sound-result coincide - comes as a thrilling on-the-edge-experience for both the audience and the performers. While improvising the players of the trio take responsibility for their own voice of the counterpoint relying on their highly individual musical languages, sharply tuned to one another through experience and playing together as a band intensively. The result are fresh and unpredictable instant compositions with great contrast in lenght, dynamics and texture. punk at times however can be pianisimo.

In September 2007 Yedo Gibson, Oscar Jan Hoogland and Gerri Jaeger played together for the first time as an ad hoc group at BOOG 29, a venue for improvised music in Amsterdam set up by Oscar Jan Hoogland in 2006. From the start it was obvious that this wasn't a one-night-stand band on the bandstand. The flexibility of the compact trio-setting felt right and musical universes expended - and it still does with every new improvisation. During the time following the band members played together a lot within the great diversity of activities that they developed in Amsterdam and the rest of Holland during the last years. There was Boucalee Ensemble, a double quintet put together by Hoogland playing the music of the dutch composer Paul Termos. There was an intense collaboration with bassist Raoul van der Weide which resulted in two wonderful concerts in Utrecht (SJU Jazz Festival), and an exciting recording. And of-course there is Gibson's Royal Improvisers Orchestra with its huge twenty people line up in which, just as within Boucalee Ensemble, all three members participate. By the end of 2008 the focus has been back on the trio under the name

EKE. (verb - obtain or create, but just barely, make an amount or supply of something last longer by using or consuming it frugally.) Hoogland switched from piano to his home developed electric clavichord divining the trio's sound more distinctively and introducing the volume-bottom to the band. EKE finally concluded the year with a very successful concert at Amsterdams Bimhuis, during the dOeK festival 7.

Reviews:

Kevin Whitehead (on dOeK festival 7 at the Bimhuis Amsterdam):

[...]Oscar Jan Hoogland kicked off the program, Friday 19 December in the Bimhuis, with the trio eke: Brazilian transplant Yedo Gibson on reeds, Gerri Jäger on drums, Hoogland on clavichord, the baroque-era keyboard that allows for key-controlled pitch-bends. But Hoogland's clavichord is amplified, tuned an octave low, and used to raunchy effect; sometimes he manipulated amplifier feedback like a guitarist. His fellow players also made less than obvious choices. Gibson often made pivotal use of percussive notes popped out of the horn in the manner of a 1920s "gaspipe" clarinetist; at times, these precisely placed rhythms/pitches made him the band's de facto drummer, if at that moment Jäger elected not to keep time, being engaged with rustling textures. The trio's loosely organized pieces were distinct from one another, because the players isolate certain strategies on individual pieces. On one number, Hoogland barely touched the keys, using the clavichord as a resonating box to amplify small objects, while Gibson played pressurized notes on soprano with pads closed, and the bell muffled against his calf. On another, Hoogland coaxed sounds from cat's yowl to video game sound effects from his keyboard. Jäger touched on but didn't overdo the rock beats; the drummer kept the time open.[...]

Thomas Ryan:

"[...]This free anarchist trio based in Amsterdam is indeed a strong shot to your mind, blowing ideas with such a precision and ferocity that you will feel the urge to hold your chair.[...]incredibly soft with intriguing noises and harmonics with great control over their instruments[...]what is really striking is their ear and communication[...]"

De Volkskrant:
Jonge impro-honden met zeggingskracht [...]De jonge toetsenist Oscar Jan Hoogland van het trio EKE toonde zich een muzikant met prettige zelfrelativering en sympathieke zeggingskracht. Geen voorzichtig gerommel, maar dikke geluiden haalde hij uit zijn collectrors item: een goedkoop elektrisch versterkt klavecimbel. Drummer Gerri Jager tikte er spastisch doorheen. Yedo Gibson ontblootte zijn kuit en drukte zijn klarinet ertegenaan om een gemoffeld piepje te laten horen. Dik voor mekaar.[...]

Koen Schouten

Draai om Je Oren:

[...]De avond werd geopend door het trio EKE (Oscar Jan Hoogland op elektrische clavichord, Gerri Jäger op slagwerk en Yedo Gibson op klarinet en tenorsax). Het trio kenmerkte zich met een queeste naar de ultieme soundscapes. Bepalend hiervoor was het onorthodoxe, door Hoogland zelf gebouwde, elektronische klavecimbel, aangevuld met snaren. Niet alleen werd daarmee in belangrijke mate de klankkleur bepaald; het instrument fungeerde tevens als ritme-instrument en bas. Drummer Jäger speelde in de alom bekende 'ritsel-en-ratsel'-traditie. [...] Terwijl Hoogland zich bezighield met geluidseffecten, zorgde saxofonist Gibson voor ruige, weerbarstige, primitieve solo's.[...]

Jacques Los

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ABAETETUBA

Yedo Gibson- soprano, baritone and tenor sax, Eb Clarinet; Antoni Panda Gianfratti- percussion; Renato Meganha- tenor sax, clarinet and double Bass; Rodrigo Couve Montoya- shamisen and acoustic guitar; Thomas Rohrer- baritone, C melody and soprano sax and rabeca

check out: http://www.myspace.com/abaetetuba

ABAETETUBA is a brazilian indigenous name (Tupi-Guarani) that means a gathering of good people.

In 2003 Yedo and Panda was probably half of the free improvisers if not the only ones in Sao Paulo (21.000.000 people city in Brazil).

Yedo that was a young and active musician in Brazilian music and jazz, started to have sessions with Panda in 2000 and then recorded some Cds with him, together this duo found out a different way to make music, in principle they thought that they were the first one to make this music as they had no information what so ever from what was going on in Europe or USA.

It was really a surprise to be confronted later with music of Rashied Ali and John Coltrane and later Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, Lol Coxhill, Han Bennink, Bary Guy, Marcio Mattos and other improvisers from all over the world.

Later in 2004 Yedo had some of his students (Renato Meganha and Couve Montoya) interested in "free music" it was from this point that he decided to create the group ABAETETUBA, with a lot of impulses and incentives from Yedo and Panda and almost daily rehearsals, soon this talented musicians became extremely interesting improvisers showing their own voices and particular ways to make music.

A year later when the group was solider and they could all make music without having a teacher and student relationship as the students were already independent musicians, Yedo decided that it was time to go to Europe were he met all these musicians that he and ABAETETUBA were listening to together in Brazil and had then the opportunity to play with other musicians and exchange experiences and concepts.

ABAETETUBA, at the same time Yedo was gone, gained a new partner Thomas Rohrer, A Swiss's musician that was already living in Brazil for fil years and had a lot of experience in the field of improvised music, Later Meganha moved to Amsterdam were he is playing again with Yedo. Couve went to London were he is spending most of his time playing with Marcio Mattos that have been also playing with ABAETETUBA as a special guest.

So even with this huge distance the group is still getting together and playing quite often as Yedo goes to Brazil.

This February 2009 They will be touring all together in Europe for the first time, ABAETETUBA will be playing in Madrid, Amsterdam, Den Haag and London.

O grupo ABAETETUBA (encontro de gente boa em Tupi-Guarani) foi fundado em 2004 a partir da iniciativa dos musicos Yedo Gibson e Antonio Panda Gianfratti que ja vinham trabalhando isoladamente com improvisacao desde 2000. As composições são realizadas espontaneamente no ato em que se toca, não havendo pré-estabelecimentos a priori, com o intuito da surpresa da musica a ser criada no exato instante. é um processo voltado para a liberdade intuitiva do momento da criação, sem restrições e preconceitos mas com interações, idéias, trocas, experimentações e energia. "Nada fixo e nada constante, tudo em transformação.

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