G P HALL : SOLO... BOURNEMOUTH 19th APRIL 2008

2008-03-03T14:36:30+01:00

G P Hall : Solo
Live In Bournemouth

An evening of Inspired Music Composed & Performed by
World Renowned Musician G P Hall.

The event will comprise of...
BEAUTUFUL ACOUSTIC MELODIES & AMAZING ELECTRIC MASTERPIECES!

Saturday 19th April 2008
Doors open : 7.30pm
Concert commences : 8.00pm

Ticket Prices
Pre-booked : £7.00 BUY NOW...?
On the door : £8.00

All tickets will contain a voucher for '£2.00 off' the purchase price of any G P Hall Album available at the venue.

The Venue:
St Aldhelm's Church,
401 Poole Road,
Branksome,
Bournemouth,
Dorset
BH12 1AB

A selection of G P Hall albums and programme of events will be available at the venue.
BY SPECIAL REQUEST... G P HALL will be available after the concert to autograph your purchases!!!

There will be a short intermission, during which time refreshments will be available to purchase.

For TICKET SALES & more info, please click HERE.

Please contact agent4gphall@musician.org with any queries.

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G P HALL IN CONCERT LIVE IN BOURNEMOUTH...
One Night Only!

See & Experience World renowned Guitarist ...G P Hall

YouTube Video... SEE G P HALL LIVE 3rd February 2008

Awarded 5 Honours on YouTube...

Performing with fellow Musicians...

Jon Lloyd (Saxophone)
Jon Leadbeater (Drums / Tabla)
Rob Palmer (Guitar)
Joe Limburne (Bass)

A Special evening of Improvised Music,
From 5 Stunning Musicians...
In a Beautiful Venue with Fantastic Acoustics!

It's sure to be MAGIC...!!!

In Concert @ St Aldhelm's Church,
401 Poole Rd,
Branksome, Bournemouth.
Dorset
BH12 1AB

Doors open @ 7.00pm
Concert commences @ 7.45pm
Admission £4.00

Seating will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
CD's will be on sale at the venue.

See G P Hall YouTube Channel Video for visuals of the Musicians & Venue.
All info is available there...

G P Hall : Photo by Suvi Hall

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For more information please contact agent4gphall@musician.org

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'Industrial Sound Sculptures' by G P Hall...

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To visit the G P Hall YouTube Channel and peruse his music videos, please click here.
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Welcome...

G P Hall is an 'original guitarist' and skilled Flamenco improvisor, renowned for playing his own original compositions and has been has been performing and composing for many years.
He has had the pleasure of playing on stage with John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson and John Ellis, and has released works with Frank Zappa, Robert Frip, Bill Frisell and John Zorn to name but a few.
G P Hall has been credited with inventing the genre known as 'Industrial Sound Sculptures', and has produced some real masterpieces using household objects, such as wind up toy cars and battery fans to vibrate his guitar strings and create his own unique and eclectic range of sounds.

G P Hall & His Sound Objects...

G P Hall Albums

Introducing G P Hall's latest album release 'Gothic Flamenco'.

Gothic Flamenco...

Unlike traditional flamenco, Gothic Flamenco has a different structure at atmosphere that draws from classical, rock, jazz, industrial, Latin and, of course, Spanish sounds plus the dance rhythms that are associated in Flamenco music.
Improvising using flamenco techniques mostly centered on the flamenco guitar.
This creates a darker, more emotional and harder edged feel to the music.
Overall, it has a more mysterious movement and yet still delivers recognisable
techniques ( i.e. rasqueados, falsetas and compás).
As with Gothic architecture, the overall works have a solid, well built frame work but with a flexibility in structure, allowing for more freedom, expression and creative individuality within their various elements.

Each A Glimpse & Gone Forever...

'An extravagantly gifted and (reflecting his wide traveling and careful listening) commendably open-eared musician, G.P. Hall has been performing his (mainly) solo guitar sound sculptures and acoustic pieces for long enough to have established himself as one of the UK ’s most adventurous and imaginative
musicians.
This album contains over 70 minutes of extraordinary music, culled from live
performances all over Britain , and it showcases his uniquely eclectic
(one piece is accurately described as a “reggae / Irish / classical / Spanish Mix”) approach perfectly.
Whether in filigree-delicate acoustic or industrial soundscape mode,
or merely rocking out over pre-recorded rhythm tracks, he is a highly individual artist who should be much better known. Essential listening not only for guitar-buffs, but also for anyone interested in cutting-edge contemporary music.'

Mar-Del-Plata...

GP Hall knows that contemporary guitar is about more than just wood, wire
and amplification: that it's about total sound. "Mar-Del-Plata"' is the junction where Robert Fripp crosses paths with Derek Bailey, the place where John Cage hires David Torn, and where Thurstan Moore deconstructs Vaughan Williams; or sometimes just a secluded bay where Paco Pena lets a Secret coiling breeze fold and sculpt his playing into something new and unearthly.
Over three decades of playing, this criminally - ignored British guitarist has
been painting detailed musical vistas for the imagination.
Hear him, In one hand, a collection of familiar guitar stills (British art-blues, world flamenco, classical, free jazz). In the other, a batch of implements (battery razors and fans, strips of Velcro, springs, bows, metal tubes, toy cars) used to tickle reluctant strings into speaking in new found voices.
Feet pumping pedals that wash the sounds across the sky.
Senses drawing on vivid memories and synaesthesic leaps.
Heart bleeding-in the human element that divides sound from noise, knowing
that all this needs to touch those who listen. Head somewhere else,
pulling all this together with thoughtful melody or beautiful chaos.
What emerges is music that tugs at the spirit, the way that weather tugs
at the air that enfolds us.
Plangent global sense-music; alive; sometimes graced with pianos, violins,
percussives, maltreated autoharps... but, whether ensemble or solo, centred
on the sonic universe which - with the right imagination, you can call out of a guitar.

Imaginary Seasons...

"His latest recording, Imaginary Seasons, a retake of Vivaldi's famous opus,
certainly does not follow orthodox lines.
Each season is rewritten with didgeridoos, whistles, bicycle spokes and
selective 'noises' augmenting guitar adagios, flute sections, brass and percussion.
Underpinning all this are the 'Industrial Sound Sculptures.'"

Steel Storms & Tender Spirits...

"This double CD, divided between the "steel storms" of guitarist GP Hall's electronic soundscapes or jazz-rock group work and the "tender spirits" conjured up by his (generally solo) more contemplative music, provides the best exposition yet of his multifaceted talent.
His ability to move easily between fearsome industrial noise abstraction,
thundering beats driven by drummer Sam Brown, haunting jazz (often featuring
the plangent trumpet of either David Ford or Andy Hague) and the most delicate
of solo acoustic meditations influenced by flamenco would suffice to mark him out as a genuine original; his incorporation of a variety of additional textures and sounds makes him unique"

Figments Of Imagination...

Figments of the Imagination (FMR Records) Graham Peter Hall is one of the very
true mavericks of the English music scene.
Growing up through the London rhythm and blues and psychedelic music scenes
of the 1960's he fixed on the idea of 'mechanical sculptures in music' in the 1970's and invented the concept of 'industrial sound sculptures' where the sounds of flamenco, jazz and hard rock would be linked with more unconventional noises.
His eighties records on Colors and Kenwest were some of the best instrumental
music of the period. His new album works as a career summary.
Its eight tracks cover a welter of sound.
A remarkably original record."

Industrial Blue...

"Guitarist G. P. Hall is another UK figure who should be much better known.
He specialises in sound sculptures, utilising everything from battery shavers,
toy cars and all manner of electronic guitar-triggered gizmos to create a unique and immediately identifiable sonic world, but his extraordinary, multi-textured compositions should be enjoyed by anyone with even a passing interest in guitar playing, either acoustic or electric.
Industrial Blue (Burning Shed), anthologises material from previous Hall albums, ranging from shimmering waves of ethereal guitar sound to powerfully atmospheric pieces underpinned by the blisteringly heavy beats that gave the album its name, and thus provides a useful entry point for new listeners wishing to acquaint themselves with the work of a strikingly virtuosic, wholly individual musician."

Mercurial State...

Mercurial State is mainly comprised of acoustic material.
Setting the tone with the affectingly simple "Temple of Dreams" and the
straightforwardly emotive "Barcelona Sunrise", Hall explores a wide range
of the gentler emotions in a characteristically rich and varied selection of
compositions.
Among his more obvious influences is Flamenco, made overt in the album's tour
de force, "Homage to Manitas de Plata", and also subtly infusing many other
pieces, but Hall's overall sound is wholly individual, enabling him to move with complete assurance from the quasi- programmatic the careful, neat steps of "Tightrope Walker", the surging beauty of "Spray of Waves", the unpredictable power of "Loose Cannon" to the intensely personal: the plaintive swoon of "Heartstrings", the heart-on-sleeve intimacy of "Supreme Love", the quiet but unshakable confidence of "Moving the Mountain".

Unknown Public...

Sandstorm - "I particularly enjoyed GP Hall's acoustic impression of an
African desert. Unknown Public, which won the music section of the Prudential Awards, always gives food for open ears and minds."
"Sandstorm" has also been played on radio 3 and an acoustic version is available on YouTube at present.

Marks On The Air...

"Although with clearly discernible roots in blues and flamenco, this is an
entirely individual, consistently exhilarating mix of electronic sound sculpture (ranging from insect-swarm to industrial-machinery effects), cosmic noise, filigree acoustic delicacy and straightforward screaming electric guitar.
All this is harnessed to produce everything from hymnic meditations
on natural beauty to what Hall calls 'industrial blues'.
Recorded at London's Spitz and Wiltshire's Phantom Theatre, this album
should be investigated by anyone interested in the outer limits of electric
music."

Colours Movements...

"Hall's use of appliances has got nothing to do with the industrial noise of, say, Einsturzende Neubauten or Test Dept, but is made an integral part of
satisfyingly emotional compositions that take the listener on a journey
through different phases, mental locations, and states of feeling.
Of his many albums Movements (Colors 1986) serves as diverse introduction to his complex but beautiful world."
"One very good compilation of new instrumental music on which
GP Hall appears is Colors: The Collection (Kenwest '86)"

Colors The Collection...

"Hall's use of appliances has got nothing to do with the industrial noise of, say, Einsturzende Neubauten or Test Dept, but is made an integral part of
satisfyingly emotional compositions that take the listener on a journey through different phases, mental locations, and states of feeling.
Of his many albums Movements (Colors 1986) serves as diverse introduction to his complex but beautiful world."
"One very good compilation of new instrumental music on which
GP Hall appears is Colors: The Collection (Kenwest '86)"

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Industrial Sound Sculptures...

G P HALL : SOLO... BOURNEMOUTH 19th APRIL 2008

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'Industrial Sound Sculptures' by G P Hall...

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