Alex Ward

b. 1974, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Britain. Ward can be an amazing clarinettist and alto saxophonist who demonstrates an extraordinary maturity of musical believed. He first produced his name while still at college, when he gained a status as the enfant awful of Grantham’s lively music scene. Well known out of this period was the seminal one-off gig performed by his very much talked-about group, Industrial Suicide. He cites numbers as different as Frank Zappa, Anthony Braxton and Olivier Messiaen among his affects. Ward implemented his fascination with improvisation beneath the assistance of Derek Bailey, executing with him on the 1988 Business period at London’s Institute of Modern Arts, where he created thoughtful and well-crafted improvisations in a number of contexts. In 1991, Ward documented a duo record with Steve Noble for the Incus label. On shifting to Oxford in 1992 to review music at Worcester University, Ward met consumer electronics FX-meister The Change (b. Benjamin Hervé), with whom he continues to be collaborating on a continuing basis since. Aswell as playing electric guitar with his rock and roll task, Camp Blackfoot, Ward performed live as an associate of innovative Oxford music group Nought. Ward as well as the Switch’s thrilling improvisation clothing, the XIII Spirits, takes the proper execution of the duo augmented by several guest musicians, who’ve included Bailey, Pat Thomas, Barbara Darling, Andrew Clare, and, for the Tale Of The Bloodstream Yeti record, Sonic Youngsters’s Thurston Moore. Ward provides continued to show his rare skill for smart and well-crafted improvisation in single and group contexts, touring with Eugene Chadbourne in European countries (1997, that an record was released) and Canada (1998). He also got part within a Business program for BBC Radio 3’s Music INSIDE OUR Time and made an appearance on Route 4 tv. In 1997 he toured the united kingdom with Butch Morris’ Conduction task, which culminated within an amazing finale on the South Loan company’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.