THF Drenching is a dictaphoneplayer, vocalist and composer of musique concrète from Levenshulme, Manchester. Odie is a vocalist and she improvises, both in her live performances and when working with recorded music, when sampling bits and pieces and when drastically glueing them different creatures togetha, hybrid.
It is in Newcastle upon Tyne that three years of collaborations were most persistently arousing her curiosity in the whole array of musics and arts, but especially, curiosity in music that defies expectations, an element of surprise in a moment makes you jump up and exclaim ''I'm so stoked!''. Now based in Manchester Greta is working in (and outside of) different genres of music, and hunting for exclamation marks all along.
Drenching runs the mailorder label Council Of Drent. All his music is essentially oral in character, obsessive and devouring, and all of it aspires to the condition of jazz in the sense of determinate physical decisionmaking. He was one fifth of Derek Bailey's final band Limescale. He now works in different settings with various improvisors and has a regular trio with David Birchall and Odie ji Ghast. His duos with Alan Wilkinson and with Ghast have proved themselves conversational to the point of hallucination. He is in the process of plotting a disquieting sidestep into dance.
Drenching also makes collages and writes poems and his favourite Dictaphone is the Aiwa TPM 130. As for Ghast, she sits there quietly for a minute and then says: ''ok so if I was a painter I would draw landscapes of parades when not myself parading.''
http://www.councilofdrent.com/
https://thfdrenching.bandcamp.com/
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/THF_Drenching/
http://plushwattle.tumblr.com/
https://soundcloud.com/readingmyeyes
