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What kinds of sounds and musical influences are you going to be experimenting with at the London Jazz Fringe Festival?
The sampled sounds and sequences are a mixture of pads, processed keyboard and guitar parts, drum and bass (and drum&bass) loops created in the studio with producer Jochen Naaf which interact with the live elements of bass clarinet and Brian Hedemann's drumming and percussion.

"Career highlight? The mushroom-aided set in the middle of a field in Dorset this summer"

Brian's set up includes an old Argentinean percussion instrument called Bombo and he includes elements of Latin rhythms in his approach. As for vocal samples they run the gamut of Missy Elliott, Jeff Buckley, Hungarian folk singersÖ

Dahu Mumagi who plays on the same night used to play in Lautrec so chances are some of his inter-stellar sax & electronic set up will make an appearance at some point too.

How did you get involved with the festival?
I am the festival programmer. At first we were going to be a part of the main LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL. I wanted our programme at the ritzy cafe to represent the more experimental side of jazz but from within the more mainstream festival. but when our inclusion in LJF04 fell through I just thought that we should go ahead on our own. And thus the fringe festival was born.

If anyone is unfamiliar with your work, can you give them a bluffer's description and some musical career highlights hype?
I would say visit www.lautrecmusic.com for more info and sound samples. But our live set is more loose and less structured than the recorded stuff you will find online. So best to come and check it out for yourselves. Career highlight? The mushroom-aided set in the middle of a field in Dorset this summer.

Name one essential non-jazz record that everyone should listen to and tell us why it is so special.
At the moment, I would say anything by Juana Molina, an Argentinean actress turned singer who plays solo live but loops keys, voice and guitar to great effect. Last week I would have said Mos Def Black on Both Sides. As for next weekÖ

If Bono is ill and needs someone to stand in for him the next time he is asked to address the world's leaders, what would you tell them?
I don't feel fully qualified to do justice to such an address. Bono is reported to be incredibly well-versed in the matters that he campaigns for outside of U2. And to boot, I am also quite cynical about most world-leaders desire for a ìchange for the betterî.

Catch Lautrec live on Thursday 18 November with Dahu Mumagi at the Ritzy CafÈ, London

Link: Our main feature on the London Jazz Fringe Festival

www.lautrecmusic.com