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Big Hair - Harry Dawes and Victor Nicholls
Autumn Left
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Freely improvised, theremin, trombone, fretless bass and plenty of electronics.

Life-affirming sounds to lift the spirits.

Paul James
Drowned Lover and Other Tales
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A stellar cast of musicians. My contributions include fretless bass, electric guitar, lap steel, tuba, electronics and iPad treatments.


Big Hair - Harry Dawes and Victor Nicholls
Love Songs
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Dark improvisation with the extraordinary, lyrical Harry Dawes on trombone and theremin. Harry is a member of Wire cover stars, Pram. And plays in Tim Hill's s Tongues of Fire. Not very bass-like fretless on this album, available here.


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Evening Star
One
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Bass guitar, electric guitar, tuba and loops on this album with Gigi Biolcati (Ricardo Tesi, Banditalia), Carlos Beceiro (La Muscagna), Patrick Bouffard (La Chavanee, Giles Chabanat), Luke Daniels, and Paul James (Blowzabella)



Paul James Mark Hawkins
Horse
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Fretless bass guitar on this album with composer Mark Hawkins using sampling to blend the Bhudda bar with the traditional.
Jo Freya Victor Nicholls
The Difference Engine
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The wonderful Jo Freya (Blowzabella) sings traditional songs arranged for electronics/fretless bass guitar



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Scarp

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Scarp's fiery folk funk/contemporary music ran from 1991 to 1999. After extensive touring in Europe, the band earned the Croix de Charles Cros, Best World Music Album of the Year in France. The track, "Goatkiller" from the album was voted one of the top 20 tunes of the 1990s by the audience of BBC Radio Three's "Mixing It" programme.

Recorded in 1994.

Patrick Bouffard - hurdy gurdy, Luke Daniels - accordion, Harry Dawes - trombone, Jo Freya - saxophones and clarinet, Martin Hughes - drums, Paul James - saxophones, Kathryn Locke - cello, Victor Nicholls - bass guitar