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Askew and Avis

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Music

The best kept secret in music

Press


"Gramaphone review"

Jeremy Avis gave a magnificent performance - Gramaphone magazine


"Joyful Sounds"

Jeremy Avis had the crowd dancing in the aisles - Jerusalem Post


"review of "The Shout""

"Deeply Cool" - The Times


Discography

First Album: Dry Land

Photos

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Bio

"The record is a powerful mix of technology and invention, with some great
melodies stirred in - I can't wait to see the band live!" David Jones: Serious Music, UK

We sing, we tell stories, we make music with our voices……we groove. What we do is unlike anything you have ever heard two vocalists doing before.

2 years ago we decided to start a band of 2, using no instruments except our voices, a loop-making machine and some effects.
We didn’t know exactly what sound we wanted, we just knew we wanted to have fun, play with the possiblities of our voices and write some good songs. Dry Land, our first album, is what we came up with…….

Looping technology, by giving us the possibility of building up layers of vocal and rhythmic texture unavailable to us with our ordinary monophonic voices, helped us come up with our own unique musical language. It is a sound we would not have developed if we had been writing for piano and voice, band or even choir of 10 singers.

How to describe it then?… We use live-looped vocal samples to make songs that are both improvised, and carefully structured. Our music is lyrical and funky. The songs work both in an album format (songs, stories and scenes to savour) as well as in a live situation because each song is re-created every performance using only our live voices. We sing harmonies, bass lines, outh percussion loops, that get sampled into the texture of the song as it progresses. None of what we do live is pre-recorded or pre-sampled, each song grows out of nothing into something complete. Because some parts of the songs are also improvised, every performance is fresh and unique.

Live: Live we are joined by Robin Whitnell: sound engineer, composer and DJ extraordinaire, who manipulates the laptop that records and loops our live vocals to create whole songs, pieces and soundscapes.