The Orchid and The Wasp is:
Chris Sharkey (electronics/guitar)
Mark Sanders (drums/percussion)
Veryan Weston solo (piano)
The music was created in-residence at Chapel FM in Leeds and is inspired by the writing of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Mark Fisher.
The sound is an immersive electro-acoustic exploration of sound and interplay and first performed at Gateshead Jazz Festival in 2018, the recording of which is available here:
https://chrissharkey.bandcamp.
Do you miss the future?
-Mark Fisher
“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
-Gilles Deleuze
The Orchid and The Wasp is Chris Sharkey (electronics/guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums/percussion)
The piece was created in-residence at Chapel FM in Leeds and is inspired by the writing of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Mark Fisher.
The music is an immersive electro-acoustic exploration of sound and interplay.
It was first performed at Gateshead Jazz Festival in 2018, the recording of which is available here:
https://chrissharkey.bandcamp.
A short film introducing the project
‘… an engrossing listen, an expansive sound collage, ideas are exchanged at light speed – Sharkey and Sanders seem to think as one…’
Jazzwise ****
‘…dense, complex and thoroughly compelling music…’
London Jazz News
VERYAN WESTON
Veryan Weston (born 1950) was awarded ‘Young Jazz Musician of 1979’ by the Greater London Arts Association. In the ’80s, Veryan worked internationally with Lol Coxhill (with whom he made his first recordings – Ogun 525 and Random Radar), the Eddie Prévost Quartet and Trevor Watts – an innovator who, in his band Moiré Music, used a unique combination of African rhythmic structures with the European musical tradition (Arc 02). Weston also melds elements of modern composition with contemporary improvisation and this can be heard in collaborations with Phil Minton, Luc Ex and Hannah Marshall, but the thread throughout his work has been primarily improvisation which reveals new aspects of an ever-changing musical identity depending on who he is playing with.