Eddie Prévost

Eddie Prévost was a co-founder, in 1965, of the seminal improvising ensemble, AMM (a group which has included formally and informally trained musicians e.g. John Tilbury, Lou Gare, Cornelius Cardew, Keith Rowe, Christian Wolff and Rohan de Saram). AMM has performed worldwide and has an extensive discography. Prévost has also worked with numerous free jazz and improvising musicians (e.g. Evan Parker, Marilyn Crispell, Paul Rutherford and Alexander von Schippenbach), with a number of younger musicians (e.g. Tom Chant and John Edwards who comprise Prévost's ‘Touch' Trio) as well as with musicians from other cultures (most notably Yoshikazu Iwamoto). He has also performed in the techno-ambient field (GOD, Main, EAR) and plays the ‘open-ended' compositions of Cardew, Wolff and Cage. In 1998, he made music for The Merce Cunningham Dance Company during their London season. His first solo CD, Loci of Change, wasreleased by Matchless Recordings (MRCD32) late in 1996. This was followed by Material Consequences and a tam-tam solo CD entitled Entelechy. He occasionally lectures and writes about music. His books, No Sound is Innocent and Minute Particulars, were publishedby Copula in 1995 and 2004 respectively. In 2006, he edited Cornelius Cardew: A Reader. Since 1999, Prévost has convened a weekly improvisation workshop in London. So far, this has been attended by over 200 musicians representing over 20 different nationalities. From this workshop, many musical groups have emerged, with some of which Prévost also performs. For a fuller discography see www.matchlessrecordings.com.