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Herve Perez
Hervé Perez is a sound artist/composer from the north of England... plays the saxophones, shakuhachi and laptop in several groups ranging from free-jazz, electro-acoustic improvisation and contemporary jazz.
Sounding out, one of his current projects, is an exploration of architecture, outdoor acoustics and sacred sites - investigating the nature of space and natural topography - through the practice of deep listening. These recordings are documents of in situ improvisations, inspired by the spirit and the special characteristics of a location.
links:
main website: www.spacers.lowtech.org/herve
wordpress: https://nexttimestudio.wordpress.com/
label: https://nexttime.bandcamp.com/
acoustic sax: http://soundcloud.com/herveperez
electroacoustic music: http://soundcloud.com/sndsukinspook
current projects:
“inclusion principle”, trio with martin archer and peter fairclough (discus label) – electroacoustic improvisations with laptops, winds, objects
"nada" listening meditation - electroacoustic improvisations with field recordings
sounding out – explorations of outdoor acoustics, sacred sites with the saxophone, investigating the nature of space and architecture, natural topography.
room harmonics – experimental recording technique using sound to represent architecture and spatial relationships
“northern” audio visual improvisation exploring a sense of place with maja bugge and adam york gregory – cello, field recordings and video projections
“beck woolf perez trio” free jazz with mick beck and adam woolf – piano and saxophones
“hornweb” martin archer’s all saxophones group
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Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis: Practical Dreamers

by John Sharpe
Practical Dreamers is the fifth collaboration between Discus label boss multi-instrumentalist Martin Archer and veteran saxophonist Ron Caines, and like the others, situates the latter's largely introspective reeds within varied electro-acoustic soundscapes. Caines was a founding member of progressive British rock band East Of Eden back in 1967, but after leaving to pursue jazzier endeavors, he performed with the likes of Evan Parker, Steve Lacy and Keith Tippett. While the pair's previous release, the excellent Blutopia (Discus, ...
Continue ReadingGus Garside & Hervé Perez: The Unexpected Visitor

by John Eyles
The Unexpected Visitor represents the first meeting of double bassist Gus Garside and saxophonist Hervé Perez as an acoustic duo, the two having previously worked together in the Ron Gaines / Martin Archer Axis group, recording the albums Les Oiseaux De Matisse (Discus, 2018) and Dream Feathers (Discus, 2020) on which the versatile Perez supplied shakuhachi, live sound processing, field recording and electronics rather than saxophone. The duo album comprises ten tracks ranging in length from ...
Continue Reading"This is a huge and expansive work of exquisite drama." - Mr Olivetti, FREQ Music magazine
"Garden of Secrets is a very successful and varied disc with electronic-folk-jazz-progressive soundscapes, and thus another remarkable album from Discus." – Achim Breiling, BABYBLAUE SEITEN
"Perez is paired on this consistently fascinating and always surprising recording alongside the acutely simpatico Alex Hegyesi, a skilled strings player and percussionist armed with a virtual arsenal of such objects... All these rich mindstates vividly demonstrate that Garden of Secrets ticks all the right boxes; experimental and accessible, beautifully tasteful to the ear, and eminently listenable. - Darren Bergstein, Downtown Music Gallery