Shortly before the turn of the millennium, drummer and legendary co-founder of the groundbreaking improvisational ensemble AMM, Eddie Prévost, launched an improvisational workshop that still takes place weekly in London. It was here that he met recorder player Teresa Hackel and pianist and author David Grundy. The newly formed trio will open the evening before the screening of the film A Bright Nowhere – Journeying into Improvisation by filmmaker Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz. The film was made to mark Eddie Prévost’s 80th birthday and documents four days of concerts with exciting musicians from the British scene, including an AMM performance.
Trio Eddie Prévost – David Grundy – Teresa Hackel
Eddie Prévost (UK): perc | David Grundy (UK/DE): pno | Teresa Hackel (DE/CH): rec
ImproVisions #6: A Bright Nowhere – Journeying into Improvisation
A film by Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz (103 min, UK, 2023) – celebrating Eddie Prévost on stage for a four day residency marking his 80th birthday
Film screening & Q&A
A BRIGHT NOWHERE – Journeying into Improvisation is an important audio-visual record of a landmark series of four concerts staged in London in 2022 when more than 30 musicians joined improviser, percussionist and animateur Eddie Prévost to mark his 80th birthday. The film takes a close look at improvisers who create music in the moment, free from the authority of a composer, score or conductor. Ranging from profound delicacy to subversive atonality, the “awkward wealth” of this music raises vital questions about artistic freedom, individual responsibility and what it means for people to make music together in the 21st Century.
Featuring performances by John Butcher, Sue Lynch, Ute Kanngiesser, Marjolaine Charbin, Nathan Moore, Seymour Wright, Veryan Weston, Alan Wilkinson, John Tilbury and Eddie Prévost amongst others. Plus readings by musician and author David Toop. The film includes the last ever concert by AMM, the pioneering improvising group co-founded by Eddie Prévost in the mid-1960s.
Elegantly filmed and astonishingly moving – The Wire
A film by HajduKino productions. Produced, directed, photographed and edited by Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz. Audio recordings mastered by Rupert Clervaux for Matchless Recordings and Publishing. Sleeve design Myah Chun Grierson at Studio Cymbal.
https://matchlessrecordings.com/music/bright-nowhere-journeying-improvisation
