Fulborn Teversham
Fulborn Teversham are the mind-blowing new group
of Seb Rochford, the extraordinarily in-demand and prolific drummer/composer, leader
of Mercury Music prize nominees Polar Bear, and winner of BBC Jazz award for Rising
Star 2004.
Fulborn Teversham pursue a more eclectic, and
less overtly jazz direction than Polar Bear, or indeed Rochford’s other acclaimed
group, Acoustic Ladyland, incorporating elements of electronica, Bablicon/Henry Cow-style
prog and post punk. With clever balancing of cosmic and acoustic sounds, Seb
Rochford (drums), Nick Ramm (Nord synthesizer), Pete Wareham (saxophones), and
Alice Grant (vocals), set up an intimate and thrilling improvisational post-punk post-jazz
chamber music for the future.
Forget the jokes about drummers being people who
hang out with musicians - Seb Rochford is a music academy graduate who plays several
instruments and can converse about any genre from modern classical to grind core.
He does, however, hang out with an inordinate number of musicians, playing with
'about 10 different bands', at the last count, including the acclaimed Polar Bear,
whose recent album, ‘Held on the Tips of Fingers’, was nominated for the highly
prestigious 2005 Mercury Music Prize. It went on to appear in the top 100 all time
jazz recordings that shook the World in Jazzwise Magazine in 2006.
Rochford has also performed and recorded with
Pete Wareham's Acoustic Ladyland, Julia Biel, Ingrid Laubrock, Oriole, Juliet Kelly,
and Tim Richards among others. He also appears in various alt rock bands such as
Menlo Park and Paul the Girl. Among his many ventures, Seb appeared at the Patti
Smith Meltdown concert at the Barbican, drumming for Yoko Ono alongside her son and
guitarist, Sean Lennon, and in October 2006, he appeared at the newly renovated
Camden roundhouse for the Electric Proms, in duo with Soft Machine legend, bassist
Hugh Hopper. Seb was also the subject of a recent major feature in the Observer
Music Monthly magazine.
Pete Wareham is a graduate of Leeds College of
Music, and the Guildhall School of Music. He played tenor and baritone sax in the
National Youth Jazz Orchestra (1997-99), and was a prize-winner at the 1997 Young
Jazz Musician of the Year. But it was his masterminding of Acoustic Ladyland and
partnership with Seb Rochford that have brought him the highest accolades. Winning
Best Band at the 2006 BBC Jazz Awards, and 'Last Chance Disco's’ nomination there
for Best Album, has made Acoustic Ladyland a near household name, captivating new
and unexpected audiences with its hip London punk-jazz. Pete has brought his fiery
sax playing to a wide variety of other projects including Polar Bear, and Jonathan
Bratoeff's latest quartet CD.
Alice Grant is a singer with a very distinctive,
punky, deadpan, English-accented vocal style. She also sings (and plays assorted
musical instruments) with Leafcutter John, and has provided vocals on the new
Acoustic Ladyland album. She also has her own group, Normal Gimbel.
Sydney-born Nic Ramm, studied at the Guildhall
School of Music, under Simon Purcell, John Taylor and Bosco de Oliviera. He has
performed as keyboardist/pianist with many of the F-IRE collective projects,
including Acoustic Ladyland, Jade Fox, Timeline, Synergy, and the F-IRE Collective
Large Ensemble. He also has his own group, Clown Revisted, whose debut album of
circus-inspired music, ‘Flashes of a Normal Woorld’ was released on F-IRE in 2006.
Fulborn Teversham have some live shows coming up. Check the live
page for details.
Discography
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Count Herbert II
CD Although Pete Warham's F-IRE affiliated jazz/grindcore
oufit, Acoustic Ladyland, have got all the media attention, they're a seemingly
contrived outfit next to the genuinely playful, unself-conscious prog-skonk of Fulborn Teversham.
Their new album, 'Count Herbert II' is a collection of unquanifiable pices which mix
jazz's joyous experimentation with alt-rock's love of noisescapes and the tangential
noodling of prog. Countless rock bands have been trying to pull off this same trick - of constructing
melody from cut-up disonace - for as long as Tom Wairs and Sonic Youth have been cool, but
Fulborn actually have the chops to make it work" [Eddy Lawrence, Time Out]
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Reviews
The Guardian
The Broken Face
Links
Fulborn Teversham Myspace
Guardian Interview
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