Debut performance of this improvisatory trio featuring legendary This Heat and Lifetones guitarist Charles Bullen on prepared strings, Daniel O’Sullivan on drums and Joseph Carvell on upright bass.
Charles Bullen was a member of timeless pre/post-everything trio This Heat. He grew up in Liverpool and after moving to London in the early 70’s he formed the improvising duo Dolphin Logic with Charles Hayward, which later, with the addition of “non-musician” Gareth Williams, became This Heat. After releasing two seminal albums the band split in 1982 and Bullen made an album the following year under the name Lifetones focusing on repetition and a more syncopated dub influenced sound. After a series of re-issues on Light In The Attic Records, Bullen and Hayward formed This Is Not This Heat, a group assembled to realise and re-imagine the music of This Heat with several musical luminaries from the London experimental music world including Daniel O’Sullivan, Alex Ward, James Sedwards, Frank Byng and Merlin Nova. Bullen has recently been developing a system of improvised music for hammered strings using dulcimer, prepared guitar, pedal steel and electronics.
Daniel O'Sullivan is a syncretic composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer living and working in South West London and has been contributing a vibrant, chameleonic brew to the music landscape since the late 1990's. He has achieved international acclaim writing, recording and performing both solo and with a myriad of celebrated groups including Grumbling Fur, Ulver, Sunn O))), Guapo, Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, Miracle, Æthenor and This Is Not This Heat.
Joseph Carvell lives in London and plays in Pink Shabab, Malphino and Down Is Up (A Moondog tribute). He has appeared at Cafe Oto before playing bass with Baby Dee, Little Annie and I'm This, I'm That. He has also recorded and played with (mostly via Coventry's finest Tin Angel Records) Peter Zummo, Laetitia Sadier, Marker Starling, Sandro Perri, Daniel O'Sullivan, Batsch, John Southworth, Ryan Driver, Tim Burgess. Doug Tielli, Nicholas Krgovich, Devon Sproule.
