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Instrument: Guitar, electric
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by John Eyles
Having been an active member of Eddie Prévost's Friday night Workshop since the early years of the millennium, experimental guitarist James O'Sullivan has not learned to improvise by receiving lessons per se but, like many other Workshop participants, by playing with like-minded individuals, listening, searching for sounds, experimenting, making mistakes and learning from them. Along the way, O'Sullivan has inevitably developed into a player with his own individual sound and style, one of a kind. Lovely Error is O'Sullivan's third ...
read moreMuster: _am_
by John Eyles
Although the duo Muster--electric guitarist James O'Sullivan and electronicist Dan Powell--were thrown together by events beyond their control, their debut album Find A City To Live In (Invisible City records, 2019) showed them to be made for each other and tuned into one another's instincts, particularly impressive as that album was created by the two swapping solo recordings and their responses to each other between their respective bases in London and Brighton. Of course--little did they ...
read moreFound Drowned: Clownslave
by John Eyles
The improvising trio Found Drowned comprises guitarist James O'Sullivan, a long-standing member of Eddie Prevost's Friday night improv workshop , bassist Peter Marsh and drummer Paul May, who together are one half of the quartet Fourth Page . The three first played together in 2010, releasing their eponymous first album in 2012. The studio-recorded Clownslave comprises two tracks, the thirty-five minute “Clown" and twenty-five minute “Slave." The album is available on cassette and/or download, the cassette versions each being twenty-minute ...
read moreMuster: Find A City To Live In
by John Eyles
Muster consists of electric guitarist James O'Sullivan from South London and electronicist Dan Powell from Brighton, some fifty miles away. This duo was formed accidentally in November 2016, when Powell was supposed to be playing in another duo as part of a Catford Constitutional improv night; the other member couldn't make it, so Powell and O'Sullivan formed an ad hoc duo, having previously played together at the London manifestation of the Long Half Day, twelve hours of continuous improvisation with ...
read moreJames O'Sullivan: IL Y A
by John Eyles
It is a great pleasure to welcome the release of IL Y A by London improvising guitarist James O'Sullivan. An active member of the London improv community, including being a long-standing member of Eddie Prevost's highly influential weekly workshop, O'Sullivan released his first album in 2009. During the years 2011 to 2014, he averaged two releases a year, including his first solo album Feed Back Couple (Forwind, 2011) and several albums in the company of Thanos Chrysakis and Jerry Wigens. ...
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