Paul Lytton

Percussionist Paul Lytton is both an inventive, textural drummer within the custom of European free of charge jazz, along with a pioneer in electronic audio processing and the usage of homemade equipment of his very own invention. Lytton produced his initial noteworthy appearances over the United kingdom creative music picture in the past due ’60s, and his impact — especially in live consumer electronics — can be seen in the experimentation of a fresh era of improvisers in the 21st hundred years. Blessed in London in 1947, Lytton examined drums privately from age 16 and performed dance music before his launch to jazz. He performed with lots of the London jazz establishment from 1966 to 1969 while also acquiring tabla lessons from P.R. Desai. Around 1969, Lytton started his preliminary forays into openly improvised music, developing a duo using the soon-to-be renowned multi-reedist Evan Parker, who performed not merely saxophones but additionally various homemade equipment like the “lyttonophone.” Bassist Barry Man eventually connected up with Parker and Lytton, as well as the Evan Parker Trio was created. Lytton was a founding person in the London Music artists’ Cooperative and collaborated with many other artists over the London improvisers’ picture from 1970 until 1975. He also created a strong romantic relationship with Aachen-based percussionist Paul Lovens, and in 1976 helped discovered the Aachen Music artists’ Cooperative. Lytton provides performed in European countries, america, Canada, and Japan being a soloist and in a variety of combinations with various other improvising music artists. He has continuing to utilize Parker and Man, serving as an associate of Evan Parker’s Electro-Acoustic Outfit, the London Jazz Composers’ Orchestra, as well as the Ruler Übü ?-rchestrü. Lytton shows up on countless recordings on several labels including Isle, Incus, Po Torch, FMP, Intakt, ECM, Leo, CIMP, and Rastacan. In 1999, Lytton toured in america with Chicago saxophonist/clarinetist Ken Vandermark and bassist Kent Kessler; he shows up with Vandermark over the duo Compact disc British Suites, released that calendar year on Wobbly Rail. Through the 1990s, Lytton also performed on two Evan Parker Trio CDs offering visitor pianist Marilyn Crispell: Natives and Aliens in 1996 and After Appleby in 1999 (both on the Leo label). The drummer after that joined Crispell for many albums on Intakt, including 2001’s Odyssey and 2004’s Ithaca. Also in 2004, he made an appearance with Evan Parker and Alexander von Schlippenbach on America 2003. Lytton following joined Parker for many more highly daring productions, including 2007’s Topos and 2010’s Moments inside your home of Music. He also collaborated with trumpeter Nate Wooley on a small number of albums, including 2009’s The Seven Storey Hill, 2010’s Creak Above 33, and 2012’s The Nows. In 2016, Lytton reunited his trio with Crispell and Barry Man for Deep Memory space.