Davis | Kleefstra | Kleefstra - Audio Art Festival

Gareth Davis, Romke Kleefstra & Jan Kleefstra at the Audio Art Festival, Akademia Muzyczna, Krakow, Poland, 21 November 2009

Anduin - Abandoned In Sleep

November 2009 Anduin - Abandoned In Sleep SMTG Limited SMTG 12-018 (lp)/SMTG 5-019 (cd)

A1 The Equal Of God
A2 Contents Of A Black Box
A3 Our Future Is A Debt
A4 Hands Behind A Curtain
A5 Autumn Looming
B1 Octagonal Forms
B2 Lovers In Transit
B3 A Light In The Darkness
B4 Labyrinthian Void
B5 Into Abandon

additional on cd only
11 Untitled
12 Filed Away
13 Black River (live) with Svarte Greiner

Dag Rosenqvist - A1, B4
Stefan Nemeth - A1
John Twells - A1
Noah Saval - A2, B3
Erik Skodvin - A3, 13
Gareth Davis - A5, B5
John Morand - B1
Stephen Vitiello - B1, B5
Tara Mornad - B1

Davis|Kleefstra|Kleefstra - Steim 2009

Date: Thursday Oct 22 2009
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.

Jan Kleefstra writes `fragments` about the land between lakes and near the sea, and because words about land and water are vulnerable, especially when the relationship with them is fragile, he doesn`t want the words to hit the ground and be trampled down by people after the pen leaves the paper. So, after various chance encounters , the releases of the `Piiptsjilling` and `Wink` CDs along with Romke Kleefstra, Machinefabriek, Soccer Committee and Chris Bakker, and countless cups of overpriced coffee, Jan, Romke and Gareth Davis converged in a converted barn due north east of Sneek on a cold, frozen Thursday, February 2009 and produced an album of stacked drones, clashing backgrounds in free jazz and academia over broken texts, amplifier hiss and distorted reeds.

Listen to Davis|Kleefstra|Kleefstra at Steim 2009 here

Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2009 – CD-Dokumentation

2009 Witten Festival of Contemporary Chamber Music 2009 - CD-documentation WD2009 (cd)

01. John Schöllhorn - rota (2008) for bass clarinet and string quartet
Gareth Davis, bass and contrabass clarinet
JACK Quartet

02. Bernhard Gander - schlechtecharakterstücke (2008) for piano trio
03. Elliott Sharp - The Boreal (2009) for string quartet
04. Gijsbrecht Roye - untitled (2001) for two shawm, slide trumpet, trombone, beckenspiel and two rabab
05. Daniel Ott - Blick Richtung Süden (2008 - 09) ein klingendes landschaftsbild (detail)
06. Stephan Froleyks - Klavierlandschaft (2009) Concert Installation (Detail)
07. Matthias Kaul - listen and taste (2009) A culinary listening situation (detail)
08. Christina Kubisch - Brunnenlieder (2009) Composition for a well and two benches (detail)
09. Hèctor Parra - Quartet no. 2 "Fragments on Fragility" (2009) for string quartet and live electronics
10. Emmanuel Nunes - Tissures (2003) for ensemble
11. Georges Aperghis - Dans le mur (2007) for piano and tape
12. Hugues Dufourt - Dawn Flight (2008) for string quartet

Gareth Davis Machinefabriek - Ghost Lanes

July 2009 Gareth Davis Machinefabriek - Ghost Lanes (3" cd-r)/Dekorder 026 (lp)

Ghost Lanes

Gareth Davis: contra bass clarinet
Rutger Zuydervelt: guitar, loop pedals, amps

Recorded in one take at Steim, Amsterdam, June 21 2009.

In September 2011 Dekorder re-released Ghost Lanes on lp, with an extra track recorded at STEIM a year and a half later.

Ghost Lanes
Mackerel Sky

Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Soundlines

June 2009 Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Soundlines (3" cd-r)

Soundlines I
Intermission
Soundlines II

Gareth Davis: bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet
Rutger Zuydervelt: computer, guitar and effects
Additional sounds on Soundlines II by Simon Scott

Soundlines I is the score for ‘The sounding lines are obsolete’
 a film by John Price, 2009

Daniel Biro Gareth Davis - A Still, Thin Sound

May 2009 Daniel Biro Gareth Davis - A Still, Thin Sound Sargasso SCD28063 (cd)

Part 1: Sinai
Part 2: Elijah

Daniel Biro: electronics, shofar
Gareth Davis: bass clarinet
Vocal Motions Singers: voices

Recorded at CAMAC (France) and at home (London) during 2007-2008

Gareth Davis & Steven R Smith - Westering

March 2009 Gareth Davis & Steven R. Smith - Westering Important Records IMPREC234 (vinyl)

A1 A Relic
A2 Westering
A3 Surmises
A4 Symphony
A5 Source & Thereof
B1 The Pulpit
B2 Contrasted View
B3 Birds As Passing Souls
B4 Surmises II
B5 Epilogue

Gareth Davis - bass clarinet
Steven R Smith - electric guitar

Recorded at Worstward Studios, May 2008.
Released in an edition of 500 copies, 100 on blue vinyl

Davis|Kleefstra|Kleefstra - Unwennich

Unreleased track by Gareth Davis (bass and contrabass clarinet), Romke Kleefstra (guitar, loops) and Jan Kleefstra (voice). Live-impro, recorded February 5th 2009 at Landscape Studio, Gauw (The Netherlands).